Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports/Wanted cue sports games
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This is a list of cue sports game articles that needs to be created, at least as well-source stubs.
Priority should be determined by a combination of popularity of the game, its historical importance, sourceability, and how much it is redlinked in extant articles.
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[edit] Carom
- American four-ball billiards. (high priority for historical importance, it is an American version of English billiards but played with four balls and was the predominant billiards game played in the US prior to about 1860; same as "four-ball caroms" in BCA rules?)
- Hand billiards (may be same thing as finger pool; redlink from Cue sport)
- Bocetta (a game with nine large balls, four red, four white and one blue; Ararmith set)
- others?
[edit] Pocket
- Bowliards (redlink from Cue sport)
- Casino (pocket billiards) (a sixteen ball, reds-yellows-and-black game; Ararmith set)
- Continuous pool (as allegedly distinct from 14.1 continuous and straight pool; redlink from Alfredo de Oro; may be covered in BCA rules, or very old BCA rules)
- Equal offense (redlink from Cue sport; covered in BCA rules; here's an additional rules source
- Fifteen-ball (covered in BCA rules)
- Finger pool (may be same thing as hand billiards; redlink from Cue sport)
- Forty-one (pool) (covered in BCA rules)
- Indian pool or slosh (ref. to India not Native Americans, apparently; sources: linked to snooker - ditto (non-HTML ver.) - same in 1921 article - as "Indian billiards" term misapplied to carrom boardgame - many Ghits just mean "billiards in India"; all indications are that the game is extinct, so removing redlink from the main article, as an Indian pool article is very unlikely any time soon)
- Line-up (pool) (covered in BCA rules)
- Mr. and Mrs. (billiards) (covered in BCA rules; SMcCandlish swears he's seen another less sexist name for this, but can't remember what or where)
- Seven-ball (redlinks from Cue sport, Glossary of cue sports terms; covered in BCA rules)
- Sixty-one (pool) (redlink from Alfredo de Oro; may be covered in BCA rules)
- Skittle pool
[edit] Obstacle
- Pin billiards (general article, to cover Danish pin billiards, which is still played in national championship - uses much larger skittles; New Zealand pin billiards, in which the "pins" are flat obelisks like miniatures of the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey" - a variant user poker pocket billiards balls was featured in the weird movie Hard Knuckle; and see-main-article mini-sections on bar billiards and five-pins; should go into history, and relationship to bowling.)
[edit] Misc.
- Mouth pool (probably next-to-lowest priority; was detailed by Shamos in one of his Billiards Digest articles ca. 2002-4, not sure, possibly earlier, in the mid-'90s)
[edit] Non-notable?
Lowest priority.
- Bocce billiards (recent invention, as least as to available sources)
- Billiard golf (recent invention, not to be confused with Golf (pool); adopts scoring system of golf, with at least three variant sets of rules, and uses a dry-erase chart to keep track of the score; one version uses different racking patterns, each with a "par" value; another, also here, Canadian-made, does the same thing but with different patterns; a third is radically different, with a unique set of rules)
- Hexapool (recent invention; was AfD'd, I think on WP:COI grounds because inventor created article or on WP:N grounds because lacked multiple sources)
- Nine-pin billiards (mentioned in UMB documents; probably a variation on Five-pins)
- Poker pool (there are several things called this; one is a set of 16 object balls with "A", "K", "Q", "J" as well as numbers, all solids) made by Aramith (featured in the movie Hard Knuckle, and Mueller makes a giant diamond rack for them); one dates to the era of clay balls (unknown in number, SMcCandlish has seen incomplete set; rules if there ever were any published unknown, and source unknown); one is a commercial recent product (15 really funky, colorful custom balls, with kings and queens and stuff on them); and one is just a set of 60 cards, played with regular pool balls, and the same games can basically be played with regular cards, but the results would be slightly skewed because there would only be 52 instead of 60 cards, unless using a hearts deck)
- Six-pocket (possibly exists as a recent invention - or obsolete game; no GHits for anything other than use as a synonym of "pocket billiards" as a class)
- Starball (recent inventions; 1 is a real set of 7 balls and extra stuff, for regular table; 1 is a patent, with star-shaped rack; 1 is subject of two patents, for a hex-shaped table, and does not appear to exist in the real world except as patent-filer prototypes, but may be related to or same as Zone-ball and/or Hexapool)
- Ten-pin pool (included in pool-simulator video game Pool Shark 2; nature unknown - might use pins like the old Italian five-pin pool variant of five-pins did, or might be some kind of ten-pin bowling rules adaptation, a la Golf (pool) and Baseball pocket billiards)
- Zone-ball (recent invention; was externally linked-to from Cue sport, removed as spam)
Also:
- Crud (real and sourced, survived AfD, but it's a silly military testosterone-goof-off pastime, not a serious game; remove from Cue sport and mention only in passing at Finger pool/Hand billiards when the time comes; leaving it in for now)
[edit] Definitely non-notable
WP:NFT junk that was deleted or simply shouldn't appear here, so no need to (re-)create articles about them.
- Beer-in-Hand (just random kids' term for jacked-up pool; plenty of Ghits, but it isn't actually a game, just a fratboy style of playing any pool game; basically a DicDef)
- Face-off (pool) (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP Ghits)
- Flanges (some random kids' hand pool variant; no non-WP Ghits)
- Indians don't share lunches (some random kids' pool game; no Ghits at all)
- Lolzacat (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP Ghits)
