Illustration of a three ball pocket billiards game in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany

Cowboy pool, sometimes just called cowboy, is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics. Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Tübingen, a traditional University town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km (19 miles southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between Pocket billiards, most commonly referred to as pool, is the general term for a family of games played on a specific class of Billiards table, having 6 receptacles English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated also known variously as the English game ^[1] The game employs only four balls, the cue ball and three numbered balls, the 1, 3 and 5. Billiard balls are used in Cue sports, such as Carom billiards, pool, and Snooker. It is played to 101 points, with points being awarded for a host of different shot types. Cue sports techniques (usually more specific eg billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are an immensely important aspect of game play in the various Cue

History

The parent game of cowboy pool, English billiards, is itself a hybrid of three predecessor billiards games – the winning game, the losing game and the carambole game (an early form of straight rail) – and dates to approximately 1800 in England. Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line)is the overarching title of a large array of Carom billiards games generally played with two and a third red, on a -covered England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland There are a number of pocket billiard games directly descended from English billiards, including bull dog, scratch pool, thirty-one pool and thirty-eight. Thirty-eight is the intermediary game from which Cowboy pool is directly derived. ^[1] This precursor game was first reported on in The New York Times on January 21, 1885: 'there is a new billiards game called "thirty-eight. Events 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common " It appears to have met with special favor among the many devotees of pool. '^[2]

Cowboy pool is very similar to thirty-eight, with the major difference being that thirty-eight requires the use of two cue balls and is played to just 38 points, thus its name. ^[2] It is unknown how thirty-eight transitioned to the modified ruleset mandated by cowboy pool, nor the derivation of its name. Etymology is the study of the History of Words &mdash when they entered a language from what source and how their form and meaning have changed over time What is known is that its first mention is in a 1908 rule book, published about the same time the well-known game eight-ball (under a prior name) was first gaining popularity. Eight-ball, sometimes called stripes and solids and more rarely bigs and littles or highs and lows, is a Pocket billiards (pool game popular ^[1] Although popular enough that its rules remain listed in authoritative rule books alongside just a handful of other games,^[3] apart from a small sanctioned tournament held in 1914, cowboy pool is strictly an amateur game. ^[1]

Rules

Cowboy pool uses only four balls, the cue ball and three numbered balls, the 1, 3, and 5. Billiard balls are used in Cue sports, such as Carom billiards, pool, and Snooker. The balls have a set opening placement: The 1 ball is placed on the head spot; the 3 ball on the foot spot; and the 5 ball on the center spot. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles As in the game of snooker, pocketed balls are immediately respotted to their starting position. Snooker is a Cue sport that is played on a large Baize -covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long Beginning with cue ball in-hand from the kitchen — the area behind a pool table's head string — the incoming player must contact the 3 ball first. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles If the player fails to do so, the opponent may either force the player to repeat the break shot, or elect to break him or herself. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles ^[1][3]

For the first 90 points of the 101 needed to win the game, points are scored in three ways: 1 point for caroming the cue ball into any two object balls; 2 points for caroming into all three object balls; and a player scores the face value of any ball pocketed, i. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles e. , if the 3 ball is pocketed, the player scores 3 points. Thus, the maximum score possible on any single shot is 11 points, achieved by caroming off and pocketing all three balls. The failure to score in one of the delineated manners on any shot ends the player's inning at the table. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles All fouls in Cowboy pool result in the player losing all points scored during the inning (not just those on the fouled stroke), and the opposing player comes to the table with cue ball in position except in the case of a scratch, which results in ball-in-hand from the kitchen. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles ^[1][3]

The 90th point in cowboy pool must be reached exactly and the failure to do so is a foul resulting in a loss of turn. For example, this means that a player with 89 points, who then scores 2 points rather than exactly 1, has committed a foul. Once the 90 point benchmark is reached, all points up to the penultimate 100 must be made by caroms. The pocketing of balls during this phase of the game garners no points. The final point necessary to reach 101 and the win must be made by a losing hazard; an intentional scratch made by caroming the cue ball off one of the three object balls. TemplateCuegloss will have to be hacked to support multi-page articles ^[1][3]

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