What is snooker?

Let start with the general snooker information..

Snooker is a cue sport and the game of snooker was invented by a Britain, Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain of the British Army garrisons of India. It is also believed that snooker is a combination of other billiard games

A regular full-size snooker table is 12 x 6 feet ( 3.7 m x 1.8 m), with 22 balls
As you can see from the pictures below

Different color of balls has its own spot to place it and each represent different points

Red     - 1 pts

Yellow - 2 pts
Green - 3 pts

Brown - 4 pts

Blue    - 5 pts
Pink    - 6 pts
Black  - 7 pts



Snooker is played with fifteen object balls that are not numbered and are solid red (called reds), six object balls of other colours that are not numbered (called colours in snooker) and a cue ball (called the white ball). The aim of snooker is to pocket the balls legally according to the rules and to score a greater number of points than the opponent.

1. The game of Snooker begins with the cue ball in hand in the Half Circle (so the starting player can place the cue ball anywhere inside the Half Circle).


2. A player who gets the right to strike has to hit one of the red ball first. when the next legal object is a red ball, is legal when:

• The white ball is not potted.

• The white ball hits a red ball first.

• Only red balls are potted.

Otherwise the strike is a foul according to the rules of snooker.
When the strike on the red ball is legal:

• If no red ball is potted then the opposing player is next.

• When a red ball is potted then the player gets as many points as the number of red balls he has potted.

when the next legal object is a colour ball, is legal when:
The white ball is not potted.

• If there are still red balls on the table then one of the coloured balls is hit by the white ball first.

• If there are no more red balls on the table then the coloured ball with the lowest points is hit first.

Only the ball that was hit first by the white ball is be potted.
Otherwise the strike is a foul. 

When a coloured ball is potted then the player's points increase by the point value of the potted coloured ball. The striker's next legal object is a red ball. If there are no more red balls on the table, the next legal object is the ball with the lowest points.


Penalty rules

• If a hit is a foul then the other player gets penalty points:

• 4 points if the white ball is potted.

• 4 points if time limit is exceeded (60 seconds/shot)

• If the white hits the wrong ball first then the value of this ball.

• If the wrong ball is potted first then the value of this ball.

• When a hit results in more fouls then the opposing player gets the points of foul with the highest value.

• Penalty points have a minimal value of 4.

After committing a foul the incoming player may play the ball(s) as they lie
request to pass the shot and let the offending player play the stroke again (without returning to the original position)


Game over

• When the only ball left on the table is the black one and The black ball is potted by the next legal shot.