English billiards English billiards English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom, where it originated, and in many former British colonies such as Australia, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pocket billiards. Two (originally both white, with one marked e.g. with a black dot, but more recently one white, one yellow) and a red are used. Each player or team uses a different cue ball. It is played on a billiards table with the same dimensions as a snooker table and points are scored for and pocketing the balls. English billiards has also, but less
Danish pin billiards an inversion of the normal play in most three-ball games such as carom billiards and English billiards, the red ball is used as a by both players, with the whites as the s. There are two ways to score points. One is by knocking over one or more of the pins, for 2 points each, with a white object ball after hitting the white with the red cue ball (i.e. a ball-to-pin shot). The other is by "making red", that is, to have the cue ball hit both object balls, which gives 4 points. It is a foul if the