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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.

Contents

[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?)
  • Boccette (Italian article; a game with nine large balls, four red, four white and one usually smaller blue (the jack or pallino – target ball); Ararmith sizes are 61 (and 1 smaller 59) mm, while the cheap-o Action brand (white rings on green box; those guys) are all 59 mm (2-5/16 in); the game is based on the lawn game bocce, but with rules variances and much less (if any) difference in size between the bowling balls and the jack; see also Bocce billiards, below; played with the hands, not cues, on a pocketless table, and presently makes use of the same "castle" of 5 skittles as does five-pins, but it seems unlikely that it did so historically, but rather only with the rise of five-pins as a huge national pastime in Italy since the 1960s and even mostly since the 1980s; Saluc/Aramith and some others sometimes [mis]spell it "bocetta"; as evidenced from YouTube footage, a legal shot need not hit the jack, one must hit at least one cushion/ball before hitting any skittles, and part of the object of the game is, as in bocce, to end up closer to the jack than the opponent; the name appears to mean "little bocce", but may be a pun, as "boccette" is also an Italian word for "bottle", and may be in reference to the shape of the pins; cross-reference via "See also" to/from Hand billiards, immediately below, and Five-pins)
  • Hand billiards (carom version of finger pool, and they might be best as same article unless there is evidence of organized competition in both disciplines; redlink from Cue sport; Napoleon was a notable player, as sourced in Stein & Rubino; redir should exist at Finger billiards; mention Boccette (above) in "See also")
  • Pin billiards see #Obstacle, Pin billiards
  • others?

[edit] Pocket

  • Artistic pool (exists as section at Trick shot, but does not really belong there, as it consists of more than trick shots; see Talk:Trick shot for citable references that provide a lot of detail; presently a redir to Trick shot)
  • Casino (pocket billiards) (redlink at Cue sport and WP:CUEGLOSS; a sixteen ball, reds-yellows-and-black game; std. ball seems to be 2" (but 2-1/16" and maybe even 2-1/4" sets also exist); Ararmith set; Casino (pool) should either exist as a redir, or be the actual article name; popular outside the US, esp. Aus./NZ; not in present BCA book, but probably in older ones – User:SMcCandlish is attempting to obtain a 1940s BCA rulebook from eBay)
  • Continuous pool (as distinct from 14.1 continuous/straight pool; redlink from Alfredo de Oro; it is essentially the same as 14.1, except that the last ball is pocketed and then racked with the rest of them; continuous pool was invented in 1889 and played professionally until 1911; World Champ. Jerome Keogh came up with straight pool as an alt., so that multi-rack runs were more plausible, and first 14.1 pro championship was held in 1912 in Philly; source: Stein & Rubino, p. 183.)
  • Equal offense (redlink from Cue sport; covered in BCA rules; here's an additional rules source
  • Fifteen-ball (redlink from Cue sport, Rotation (pool); covered in BCA rules)
  • Finger pool (pocket version of hand billiards; redlink from Cue sport; redir should exist at Hand pool)
  • 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; make redirects at Mr. and Mrs., Mr. & Mrs. (convert to a DAB page), Mr. and Ms. (convert to DAB page), Mister and missus, etc.)
  • Pin pool see #Obstacle, Pin billiards
  • Poker pocket billiards (covered in BCA rules; requested at Talk:Cue sport; there are also less notable variants that SMcCandlish can document)
  • Six-ball (presently just a redir to Nine-ball#Six-ball)
  • Sixty-one (pool) (redlink from Alfredo de Oro; may be covered in BCA rules)
  • Skittle pool see #Obstacle, Pin billiards
  • Thirty-ball (redlink at WP:CUEGLOSS#Way)
  • Trick shot (not a redlink, but very inadequately covers the big, televised professional deal)

[edit] Obstacle

  • Pin billiards (general article, to cover Danish pin billiards, which is still played in national championships - uses much larger skittles; and see-main-article mini-sections on bar billiards, five-pins and nine-pins; should go into the history, and the relationship to bowling, and cover skittle pool/pin pool (redirs) unless and until such time as that needs its own article)
  • Devil's pool (SMcCandlish has found a .au source via eBay, but another is probably needed; Australian/New Zealand pin billiards [one variant known to use 3 balls, probably but not certainly carom-size, and probably but not certainly on a pocketless table, is known as victory billiards or victory pool] in which the "pins" are flat obelisks like miniatures of the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey" - a variant using poker pocket billiards balls was featured in the weird Aus. sci-fi movie Hard Knuckle)
  • Several noteworthy games aside from bar billiards and bagatelle; Stein & Rubino go into a few of them briefly, but Shamos covers many of them in detail, incl. with pre-1900 pics that can be legally scanned as public domain)

[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; small balls, 4 per player/team (red vs. green), under 2", and very small yellow jack or pallino ("bullet") or "jack" (target ball), about 1"; can be played with hands or with cues; pretty much same rules as bocce; see also Boccette above for a bocce pool variant with a longer history; preserves the size ratio between the bowling balls and the jack much more closely than boccette)
  • 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)
  • Blazz (recent, patented invention; patent; also mentioned by Shamos, presumably in his Enc., though possibly in Pool, or both)
  • 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; a variation on Five-pins, and should simply be covered there in a section; does not need own article, though a redir wouldn't hurt)
  • 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)
  • Progressive billiards (non-notable practice drill masquerading as a new "game" - score carom with no cushions, then 1 cushion, then 2, then 3, restart; was added to and removed from the Carom billiards article; few G'hits, no reliable sources)
  • 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)
  • Bjureez (non-notable local UK hand-pool drinking game made up on a blog; no GHits other than a couple of blogs)
  • CalvinPool (some random kids' pool game; no notable GHits other than its GeoCities page or things that frame or refer to it)
  • Face-off (pool) (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP GHits)
  • Firehouse 19 (some random firefighters'[??] WP:NFT game)
  • Flanges[1] (some random kids' hand pool variant; no non-WP GHits)
  • Goof ball (some friends-and-family game from Philly; no non-WP GHits, other than its own years-dead website)
  • Impulse killer a.k.a. The Hound (another made-up-one-day goof-off pastime for kids, in which the goal is to never let the cueball stop moving, i.e. any shot taken will be inaccurate random smacking of balls around)
  • Indians don't share lunches (some random kids' pool game; no GHits at all)
  • Lolzacat (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP GHits)
  • Mexican pool (evidently a hoax article; speedied; certainly did not reflect actual pool as played in Mexico)
  • PNG cutthroat
  • Pool bocce a.k.a. English pool bocce (some random kids' hand pool game; no relevant non-WP GHits; not to be confused wih Bocce billiards and Boccette, above, though conceptually similar)
  • Puckpool (Australian coin-op commercial variant of carrom; utterly non-notable as its own entry, already mentioned at carrom in an appropriate way, but keeps being added as wikispam to the ExtLinks section there, to be frequently reverted under WP:SPAM and WP:EL)