Losing Hazard: You score if you hit the other cue ball, which should then hit the red ball and pocket the ball to get three points. If you pocket the wrong ball, it’s called a foul, which gives your opponent a turn. For example, if you just pocketed a red ball, what is billiards the next one should be a coloured ball. Here’s an example. It’s a population ecology example, but not because population ecology is the only bit of ecology that’s about dynamical systems. That’s why colliding billiard balls are a paradigmatic example of causality in philosophy. You cannot pocket red balls continuously. In a call-pocket game or straight pool, you can choose which ball to pocket. The latter is a common foul committed when a player fails to escape from a "snooker", where the previous player has left the cue ball positioned such that no legal ball can be struck directly in a straight line without being wholly or partially obstructed by an illegal ball. The offending player forfeits their turn and the opposing player can place and shoot the cue ball from anywhere on the table, in any direction.

Note that these two other balls are already on the table, and remember that white and yellow are the cue balls. If you’re looking for a pool table, you’re in the right place. Your opponent gains the advantage of ball in hand, entitling them to place the cue ball anywhere on the table before taking their shot. You also win if your opponent accidentally pots the 8 ball, which is illegal. Hit the cue ball using the other cue ball and then target the red ball, which should not be pocketed to earn two points. To score points, which are known as counts, you need to bounce the cue ball off the other two balls. That’s why you should first know about the rules and the number of balls you’re going to play with. The first type of pool, which will be discussed, this "pool". The first shot is known as the break, which determines the type of balls each player will need to pocket to win. To win the pool game, you will need to pocket the number 8 ball after you have pocketed all seven balls. Pool can be played with eight balls, which consist of 15 balls.

At the Golf Croquet World Team Championships, eight nations contest the Openshaw Shield. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon is famous for its lawn tennis tournament, but retains an active croquet section. At least one version of it, rouët ('wheel'), was a multi-ball lawn game. Those additions intended to prevent or at least delay the migration of flames beyond the projection areas. For American and British sizes, refer to this blog post. See the linked post from Nick Rowe, below, for further clarification. Finding out if the table is portable or not will give you a clue to its construction. The one who wins the break shot will choose whether to play with coloured or striped balls. For a nine-ball pool, you will have nine balls, while a three-ball pool has three balls. Winning Hazard: You pot the red ball to get three points. Sinuca brasileira (or "Brazilian snooker") is a variant of snooker played exclusively in Brazil, with fully divergent rules from the standard game, and using only one red ball instead of fifteen.

Like history, ecology is (mostly) not "just one damned thing after another." But it’s hard not to think of it that way, and to teach our students not to think of it that way. When humans think about causality, they find it natural to think in terms of sequences of events. You may think of English as something to use to make the cue ball travel left or right, but you can also use it to make the ball roll forward or backward. Your cue strikes the cue ball, causing it to roll into another ball, causing that ball to roll into the corner pocket. You should not pocket any other ball aside from the one you selected. The process involves using the cue ball to pocket the red and coloured balls. Inputs and outputs, not colliding billiard balls. In this version of croquet, there are nine wickets, two stakes, and up to six balls. You can also get two points if you hit the red and the other cue ball at the same time. Each time a ball is roqueted, the striker gets two bonus shots. When you get a little better, you gain a little control with the speed that you apply to the cue ball.