8-Ball Pool: Instructions
How to play
A cue appears when you click on the white ball. In front of the cue you will see a yellow line with an image of the white ball. This shows the direction of the shot. You can rotate the cue in the desired direction by moving the mouse while holding down the left mouse button. The power of the shot will be shown by changes in the length of an arrow. Once you let go of the mouse button, the white ball is played. Spin on the ball only has an effect if the ball hits a cushion. In the upper left-hand corner of the table you will see a display indicating which ball is being played by the current player and how many balls still have to be potted.
Rules
This is a pool game for two players. A total of 16 balls are used, seven solid and seven striped, as well as one black and one white ball. The player who opens the game starts. Before the start of the game, the ball can be placed anywhere in the left quadrant. Once a ball is potted (except during the opening shot or a foul), this decides who plays solids and who plays stripes. From this point on, players may only play balls with their own pattern. As long as a player keeps potting his/her own balls, he/she may continue playing.A player commits a foul when
- he/she pots the white ball
- plays no ball or the wrong ball
- pots the black ball prematurely
- less than four coloured balls touch the edges or none are potted during the break
- after the first contact between the white ball and another ball no balls are potted or not even one touches a cushion
The player who wins the foul can place the white ball anywhere on the table and continue playing.
The aim of the game is to pot your own balls in as few rounds as possible. Finally, the black ball also has to be potted in the correct pocket. The first player to correctly pot all seven of his or her balls and then the black ball wins. If a player causes a round to end prematurely, the opponent wins. A game ends in a draw if neither player is able to pot a ball after 20 shots.
