The Objective:
To score a greater number of point than the opponent
Balls Used
Set of Snooker balls: fifteen unnumbered solid red object balls (called reds), six unnumbered object balls of different colours (called colours) and the cue ball (called the white ball). Each object ball has a different point value: red-1, yellow-2, green-3, brown-4, blue-5, pink-6, and black-7
Turn Definition
The striker's turn at the table continues when a ball potted legally, until he either fails to legally pot a ball or wins the frame.
Rules of Play
After the first red ball has been potted, the next legal object ball would be colour, and so on. As long as reds remain on the table he must alternate his play between reds and colours (though within each group he may play a ball of his choice). It is not necessary to cause the cue ball or an object ball to contact a cushion or drop in a pocket after the cue ball has contacted a legal object ball. Failure to contact a legal object ball first is a foul.
Potting the red when there are still reds on the table:
The incoming striker (the player taking his first stroke of an inning) always has a red as his legal object ball.
Potting the colour when there are still reds:
The striker whose legal object ball is colour must:
a) Designate a specific colour ball as his object ball
b) Cause the cue ball to make the first contact with that specific colour ball.
Failure in meeting these requirements is a foul.
While reds remain on the table, each potted colour is spotted prior to the next stroke (see Spotting Balls below for spotting rules).
Game play after all the reds are potted
When no reds remain on the table, the striker's object ball becomes the colours, in ascending numerical order (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7).
Reds illegally potted are not spotted; they remain off the table. Colours illegally potted are spotted.
Fouls
It is a foul when you:
· Fail in contacting the red ball on the opening break shot;
· Fail in first contacting a legal object ball;
· Fail in contacting a red ball when your legal object ball is red;
· Pot a colour ball when the legal object ball is red;
· Pot a red ball when the legal object ball is colour;
· Contact a different colour ball than the designated one;
· The cue ball enters a pocket;
· If the striker's object ball is a colour, and he pots any other ball, it is a foul.
Shoot again
After a foul will pop up a request:
Such request cannot be withdrawn and the incoming player has a choice of:
1) Accepting the table and becoming the striker.
2) Requiring the opponent to become the striker.
Penalties for Fouls
When a player commits a foul, the opponent is awarded penalty points of minimum four points or maximum seven. The penalty point is the higher number between the point value of the legal object ball and the point value of the ball that was hit first.
