Billiards game
AssigneeJohn R. Bryant
InventorsJoseph Porper, John R. Bryant
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Abstract
A method for playing a game on a pocket billiards table with a plurality of consecutively numbered billiards balls and a cue ball by at least two players is shown and described. The object of the game is for a single player to sink all of the billiards balls into the pockets of the billiards table in the fewest shots or strokes. The first ball each player attempts to sink in a pocket is the lowest consecutively numbers ball on the table. Each time the lowest consecutively numbered ball is pocketed, the player moves to the next higher consecutively numbered ball which has become the lowest consecutively numbered ball remaining on the table after the previous ball was pocketed.
Claims8
A method of playing a game on a pocket billiards table with a plurality of consecutively numbered billiards balls and a cue ball by at least two players using at least one cue stick, comprising the steps of:
- (A) placing the consecutively numbered balls in a predetermined pattern on a surface of the table;
- (B) placing the cue ball anywhere on the table;
- (C) moving the cue ball towards the lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table by striking the cue ball with the cue stick wherein each strike of the cue ball by the cue stick is counted;
- (D) moving the cue ball towards the next consecutively numbered ball so long as both the movement of the cue ball caused the previously lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table to enter any of the pockets of the table and there is at least one billiards ball remaining on the table;
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- (E) repeating steps (C) through (D) until no billiards ball remains on the surface of the table.
The method of claim 5, including the steps of:
- (I) repeating steps (C) and (H) until no billiards ball remains on the surface of the table.
A method of playing a game on a pocket billiards table with a plurality of consecutively numbered billiards balls and a cue ball by at least two players using at least one cue stick, comprising the steps of:
- (A) placing the consecutively numbered balls in a predetermined pattern on a surface of the table;
- (B) placing the cue ball anywhere on the table;
- (C) moving the cue ball towards the lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table by striking the cue ball with the cue stick wherein each strike of the cue ball by the cue stick is counted;
- (D) moving the cue ball towards the next consecutively numbered ball so long as both the movement of the cue ball caused the previously lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table to enter any of the pockets of the table and there is at least one billiards ball remaining on the table;
- (E) repeating steps (C) through (D) until no billiards ball remains on the surface of the table;
- (F) adding a one stroke penalty if the player sinks the cue ball into one of the pockets;
- (G) placing the cue ball in a predetermined position depending on the location of the lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table;
- (H) adding a two stroke penalty if the player sinks into one of the pockets a billiards ball other than the lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table but does not sink the lowest consecutively numbered ball;
- (I) performing the steps (A) through (H) for each player;
- (J) tallying the number of strikes made by each player;
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- (K) declaring winner one of the at least two players who has the lowest number of strikes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.