Sinuca brasileira (Brazilian Portuguese for Brazilian snooker), often simply called sinuca, is a cue sport played on a snooker table, using only one <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">red ball</dfn> instead of snooker's fifteen, with the normal six <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">colours</dfn> of the standard set of snooker balls. The balls carry the same basic <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">point</dfn> values as in snooker, and, like in other pocket billiards games, a white <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">cue ball</dfn> is used to <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">pot</dfn> the red and other coloured balls. The game is played almost exclusively in Brazil, and is little known outside this region.[1]
The ball value is the same as in standard snooker (red = 1, yellow = 2, <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">green</dfn> = 3, <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">brown</dfn> = 4, <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">blue</dfn> = 5, pink = 6, <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">black</dfn> = 7) and is awarded to a player after the corresponding ball is legally potted.
The colours are set up on their normal <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">spots</dfn> as in snooker, and the remaining red ball is placed halfway between the <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">pink ball</dfn> and the right side <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">cushion</dfn>. The cue ball is placed in <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">the "D"</dfn>. The opening player may move the ball anywhere within the "D" before playing. After this, players will only have a chance to move the cue ball when an <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">in-off</dfn> <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">foul</dfn> (<dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">fault</dfn>) occurs, and the incoming opponent will get <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">ball-in-hand</dfn>, permitting placement of the cue ball anywhere within the "D".
The first shot must be played so that the red ball is contacted, however, it is not permitted to either pocket the red ball or leave the opponent snookered.
A player at his turn on the table has a choice to either shoot for the ball with the lowest point value (a free shot) or any other ball (a penalty shot). If the player plays a free shot, he must proceed with a continuation shot, and the free ball remains out of the game. Any ball may be nominated as the ball on for the continuation shot and it is respotted after it is pocketed. Missing either the free shot or the continuation shot ends the player's inning. However, if the player elects to shoot the penalty shot, the penalty ball is respotted and his next shot must be a free shot. Differently from free shots and continuation shots, missing a penalty shot is not only the end of an inning, but also a foul.
Every foul awards the opponent with 7 points. All other rules are the same as in snooker, although <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">plants</dfn>, <dfn style="border-bottom:1px dotted #0645AD; font-style:inherit;">cannons</dfn> and other combination shots are automatically illegal because all the balls are different colours.[1]
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