Rules of snooker ball to the red and coloured balls. A player (or team) wins a match when they have achieved the best-of score from a pre-determined number of frames. The number of frames is always odd so as to prevent a tie or a draw. Snooker is played on a rectangular snooker table with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. The table usually has a slate base, covered in green baize. At one end of the table (the "baulk end") is the "baulk line", which is from the baulk cushion (the short cushion
Billiard ball cue ball. "(See snooker for more information on ball setup.)" The colour balls are sometimes numbered American-style, with their point values, for the amateur/home market, as follows in the adjacent table. Snooker balls are technically standardized at in diameter within a tolerance of plus or minus . No standard weight is defined, but all balls in the set must be the same weight within a tolerance of . However, many sets are actually , even from major manufacturers. Snooker sets are also available with considerably smaller-than-regulation balls (and even with ten instead of fifteen reds) for play on smaller tables