Snooker

Snooker is a difficult game. And I'm not only talking about potting
balls! Many of the problems, it seems, appear when people are
fighting over the rules and regulations of this intriguing game.
I'm sure you and your playing partner more than once have become
"unfriendly" after a rules dispute.
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 side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table
is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m). It is played using a cue,
one white ball (the cue ball), 15 red balls (worth 1 point each)
and 6 balls of different colours (worth 2–7 points each).
A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by
scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue ball to
pot the red and coloured balls. A player wins a match when he wins
a certain number of frames.
Snooker is particularly popular in many of the English-speaking
and Commonwealth countries, and in China, with the top professional
players attaining multi-million pound career earnings from the game.