Bring water to a rolling boil. Add the corn. Return the water to the boil as quickly as possible and time for 3 minutes. Some cooks go so far as to say, as soon as the water returns to the boil, the corn is cooked. The point here is, keep the cooking time to a minimum, to retains corn's sweetness and flavor.
Billiards is played with three balls: white, red and yellow. The white and yellow balls are the cue balls of the two opponents respectively and the objective is to score some set points. The player who scores the required points first, wins. In snooker, there are 15 red and six coloured balls and one cue ball.
Traditionally, poker has been thought of as a game for 2 to 7 players, the more the better with 6 or 7 being the ideal number. However, some variants can be played by more than seven, and some versions work well for a small number of players-even with just two (heads up). The deal and play are clockwise.