kindlin
08-12-2007, 02:53 AM
I have a billiards game idea that I believe is entirely new. (I made it from scratch) I think its pretty good and was wondering where would I post the rules for this game, maybe get some feed back on it.
And I guess I might as well post all the rules and whatevers I can think of here. This is the first time I'm going to put this game into writing, so help with how to make it make more sense would be appreciated too.
here goes.
Before anything else, the object of the game is to pocket every single ball within the fewest number of strokes. I'd guess the best player in the world could finish, on average, in about 11 to 13 strokes (getting 2 balls in in 1 stroke a couple times and not missing any shots). It is technically possible to get a score of one, getting all balls in on the break. I also think that there should be a stroke limit, somewhere between 50 and 100, where your game ends and the balls are counted and the number of balls left on the table is added to the persons score. Each player plays through their entire game before the next person goes up to play through there entire game. The person with the lowest score wins.
I have a specific rack. But specific only in how you place the balls randomly. You grab 3 balls in each hand so that they are lined up in your hand and you place them like
____/5\
___/3 4\
__/3 2 4\
_/3 5 2 4\
/1 1 1 2 5\
(place the first handful of balls in the 1's place, the second handful of balls in the 2's place, etc.) the 5th set of 3 balls that are placed are placed in the two corners and in the middle area, as shown in the picture. Now, this rack is entirely something of my own creation, and could be trashed for just randomly placing the balls in the rack, but I like it and if you see someone do it its really easy to understand. When you grab the balls in your hand they should be grabbed at random, so that no 2 racks will be the same for probably a very long time.
Now that the rack is out of the way you break it like normal, from behind the headstring. The brake counts as stroke 1.
When you shoot next you can choose between a couple options. The easiest and most obvious is to shoot for the only real legal shot, which is to hit the lowest numbered ball first. You can bank the cueball to hit the lowest numbered ball (LNB from here on out) but if the cueball doesn't hit any ball or hits any ball besides the LNB first then you have 3 turns after the miss to pocket the LNB. You may however not want to go for the LNB but instead shoot for a different ball that you can get in or even just shoot any random ball to try and set yourself up for getting the LNB in within the 3 shot shot limit. The ending goal however is to eventualy get the LBN in. You could keep just hitting the LNB and inching it an inch at a time all around the table if you wanted, but then you would surely lose so there is no point.
You do not HAVE to hit a bumper or any of that each shot, just hit the LNB first and your golden. When you have no shots on any other ball to set yourself up for the LNB, you cant get the LNB in on your shot because you have no shot, sometimes all you try and do is just hit it first. If you do not get the LNB in 3 stokes or less after not hitting the LNB first then you have to take out all of the balls pocketed so far in any way and rack them in the default spot. If there are balls already there move out as little as possible to allow for the balls that were already pocketed to fit there. You will probably need to rack these by hand, as the triangle would be very clumsy in many situations. These balls are racked in a VERY specific way. The lowest ball is in the front; the next two lowest, the lowest of the two to the left, are in the second row; the next 3 lowest balls, the lowest to the left, the highest of the 3 to the right, are in the 3rd row, etc. If the balls that need to be re racked don't form a perfect triangle, then form the triangle as best you can (the perfect triangle numbers being 1, 3, 6, 10, 15) and you place the remaining balls centered in the last row, even if the makes the balls look like...
(this would be a 12 ball rack)
___X
__XX
_XXX
XXXX
_XX
If you scratch the cueball its placed behind the headstring. You CAN shoot at balls that are behind the headstring.(i figured that was important when at any one time you have only one ball your legally allowed to hit) You get +1 to your score if you scratch. It could however be beneficial to scratch, if the LNB is above the headstring and you dont think you can get a shot in to set yourself up on the next shot for the LNB, then just shoot the cueball into a hole, take the 2 points from that wasted shot and just get your ball in on your next shot guaranteed.
If any ball is jumped off the table it is pocketed. If you knock the cue ball of the table its like a normal scratch, if you knock an object is jumped off the table its pocketed like a normal shot.
And I guess I might as well post all the rules and whatevers I can think of here. This is the first time I'm going to put this game into writing, so help with how to make it make more sense would be appreciated too.
here goes.
Before anything else, the object of the game is to pocket every single ball within the fewest number of strokes. I'd guess the best player in the world could finish, on average, in about 11 to 13 strokes (getting 2 balls in in 1 stroke a couple times and not missing any shots). It is technically possible to get a score of one, getting all balls in on the break. I also think that there should be a stroke limit, somewhere between 50 and 100, where your game ends and the balls are counted and the number of balls left on the table is added to the persons score. Each player plays through their entire game before the next person goes up to play through there entire game. The person with the lowest score wins.
I have a specific rack. But specific only in how you place the balls randomly. You grab 3 balls in each hand so that they are lined up in your hand and you place them like
____/5\
___/3 4\
__/3 2 4\
_/3 5 2 4\
/1 1 1 2 5\
(place the first handful of balls in the 1's place, the second handful of balls in the 2's place, etc.) the 5th set of 3 balls that are placed are placed in the two corners and in the middle area, as shown in the picture. Now, this rack is entirely something of my own creation, and could be trashed for just randomly placing the balls in the rack, but I like it and if you see someone do it its really easy to understand. When you grab the balls in your hand they should be grabbed at random, so that no 2 racks will be the same for probably a very long time.
Now that the rack is out of the way you break it like normal, from behind the headstring. The brake counts as stroke 1.
When you shoot next you can choose between a couple options. The easiest and most obvious is to shoot for the only real legal shot, which is to hit the lowest numbered ball first. You can bank the cueball to hit the lowest numbered ball (LNB from here on out) but if the cueball doesn't hit any ball or hits any ball besides the LNB first then you have 3 turns after the miss to pocket the LNB. You may however not want to go for the LNB but instead shoot for a different ball that you can get in or even just shoot any random ball to try and set yourself up for getting the LNB in within the 3 shot shot limit. The ending goal however is to eventualy get the LBN in. You could keep just hitting the LNB and inching it an inch at a time all around the table if you wanted, but then you would surely lose so there is no point.
You do not HAVE to hit a bumper or any of that each shot, just hit the LNB first and your golden. When you have no shots on any other ball to set yourself up for the LNB, you cant get the LNB in on your shot because you have no shot, sometimes all you try and do is just hit it first. If you do not get the LNB in 3 stokes or less after not hitting the LNB first then you have to take out all of the balls pocketed so far in any way and rack them in the default spot. If there are balls already there move out as little as possible to allow for the balls that were already pocketed to fit there. You will probably need to rack these by hand, as the triangle would be very clumsy in many situations. These balls are racked in a VERY specific way. The lowest ball is in the front; the next two lowest, the lowest of the two to the left, are in the second row; the next 3 lowest balls, the lowest to the left, the highest of the 3 to the right, are in the 3rd row, etc. If the balls that need to be re racked don't form a perfect triangle, then form the triangle as best you can (the perfect triangle numbers being 1, 3, 6, 10, 15) and you place the remaining balls centered in the last row, even if the makes the balls look like...
(this would be a 12 ball rack)
___X
__XX
_XXX
XXXX
_XX
If you scratch the cueball its placed behind the headstring. You CAN shoot at balls that are behind the headstring.(i figured that was important when at any one time you have only one ball your legally allowed to hit) You get +1 to your score if you scratch. It could however be beneficial to scratch, if the LNB is above the headstring and you dont think you can get a shot in to set yourself up on the next shot for the LNB, then just shoot the cueball into a hole, take the 2 points from that wasted shot and just get your ball in on your next shot guaranteed.
If any ball is jumped off the table it is pocketed. If you knock the cue ball of the table its like a normal scratch, if you knock an object is jumped off the table its pocketed like a normal shot.