What is the difference between billiards pool and snooker?
Billiard tables have larger pockets and use larger balls than snooker. Other than that the tables are very simular in size and design. The smaller snooker balls are red, and yellow with white cue balls. They are not numbered like billiard balls and the game is entirely different than say 8 or 9 ball played here in the USA. I am not sure of the rules or scoring of snooker. A billiard table can be comverted to snooker because you can make the holes smaller to accomidate the snooker balls, but not visa-versa.
A quick answer: Billiards is the oldest of them – very few balls and to me incomprehensible rules. Snooker came from it, devised by people that fancied something a bit easier to understand. You have a quantity of red balls, and a number of coloured ones (and a white cue ball). Basically, you break the reds up and try to put them down the holes. When you pot one, it stays down. When you pot one, you can also then try to pot a coloured one (hwich have different scores on them). If you do, it comes back up and is replaced as near to where it started as is possible. If you miss, the other player has a go. When all the reds are gone, the colours are taken in a set order. Highest score wins. Pool has two sets of balls – plain and striped (or some other such thing. You decide which you are potting by the first player to pot one going for those afterwards. When a ball is down, it stays down. The 8 ball (black) is the last to be potted. There are other sets of rules for pool, but 8 ball is thee
