Bowlliards is a pool game often used as a training <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">drill</dfn>. The game borrows aspects of ten-pin bowling. The game is divided into ten frames where a player gets a maximum of two innings to <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">pocket</dfn> ten balls.
At the start of each "frame" (round of play, in bowling terms), ten <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">object balls</dfn> are <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">racked</dfn> in a triangle with the front ball placed at the <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">foot spot</dfn>. The <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">cue ball</dfn> is placed in the area behind the <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">head string</dfn> (<dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">baulk line</dfn>), i.e. in "<dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">the kitchen</dfn>", and the first player <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">breaks</dfn>. After the break the player gets <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">ball in hand</dfn> and tries to pocket as many balls as possible until missing. This is considered the first <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">inning</dfn> of the frame, which consists of as many innings as there are players. If there are still balls left on the table after the first attempt, the player gets another try. Clearing all the balls on the first inning is called a strike, clearing remaining balls on the second inning is called a spare. For details on scoring see the scoring section for ten-pin bowling.
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