How to play Pool.

Billiards is a cue game that is played between two people or two teams, the objective is to put all the balls inside the six holes that are on the edges of the table. I learned how to play Billiards while I was in UTPA the summer before senior year. These are the instructions:

First, there are fifteen balls that have either colored stripes or all the ball is painted, also each ball have a number from one to fifteen. The balls that have numbers from 1 to 7 are colored with a color, while the balls that have numbers from 9 to 15 have colored stripes; the ball that has the number 8 is black and is considered neutral, the balls that are all colored are called “rounded” and the balls that have a stripe are called “stripes”.

To begin the game, all the balls are put together in one of the sides of the table arranged in a form of a two-dimensional triangle, one player puts a white ball (with no number) on the other side of the table in a way that the white ball is facing the triangle. Once the players are ready to start, one of the hits the white ball with the cue (stick) in direction of the triangle; if the player succeeds in putting the 8-ball in one of the six holes in the first try, then he automatically wins. If the player puts a rounded ball inside one of the holes, then that player will have to try to put all the rounded balls inside the holes until there are no more rounded balls on the table, when the player has made all the rounded balls inside the holes, then he or she will have to put the 8-ball inside the holes in order to win (same thing if the player makes an stripe-ball in the first try, also if the player makes a ball in the first try, he keeps playing until he misses one ball).