NH Steve
Administrator
Okay, I added a couple of more rules that you all brought up here:
Also, here are some more rules from the LeBar book -- do these look right?
- Two or more players
- Each player gets their own object ball
- Opening shot is from "inside the D" with the cue ball, object ball on the designated "spot" -- the designated spot might vary depending on the difficulty level of the table itself, and the advanced level of players?? (on Lenny's stream, they used the center of the foot rail, but it looked like not frozen to the rail, but rather about a half a ball off the cushion).
- The basic object of the game is to pocket your own object ball in each of the six pockets, in order, before your opponent does
- The order of pockets is first the back corner to your right, as you stand at the head of the table facing your opening shot, and then clockwise around the table until you finish at the "six pocket", which would be the right side pocket as you face your opening shot
- On the opening shot, each player in turn takes ball in hand from within the "D" for their first shot. If any player makes their ball in the "one pocket" on their opening shot, then their ball is re-spotted and they continue to shoot at the next pocket, until they miss. Then the next player takes their opening shot with ball-in-hand within the "D"
- Once all players have shot their opening shot, then the cue ball is played where it lies, unless .
- Every time your ball is pocketed, it is re-spotted on the agreed upon "spot"
- Golf is a wagering game, with the main stakes based on who makes all six pockets first, and secondary stakes per each scratch (called a "hickey")
- For a legal safety in Golf, you need to meet the standard pocket billiards requirements for ball and rail contact as in other games, or you can legally play safe by striking a rail or rails first, and then simply contacting your object ball with the cue ball, without the requirement of hitting a rail afterward. Either play is a legal safety in Golf.
- You are penalized a "hickey" any time you pocket scratch; anytime you pocket your opponent's ball; anytime you strike your opponent's ball before your own; anytime your cue ball flies off the table; anytime you fail to play a legal safety; anytime you pocket your own ball in any of the wrong pockets (any pocket other than the pocket you are "on"); if you shoot out of turn
- If you pocket another player's ball in the pocket that the other player is "on", that pocket counts for the other player.
- If the shooter pockets their own ball in their own pocket, but on the same stroke pockets an opponent's ball, then the shooter's pocket does not count, and they are penalized a scratch. If the ball went in the proper pocket for the opponent, then it would count for the opponent.
- When the shooter pockets any object ball or balls illegally, whether his own ball or an opponent's ball, all such balls are held for spotting until each shooter takes their turn at the table -- then that shooter's object ball only is spotted.
Also, here are some more rules from the LeBar book -- do these look right?
- If you are completely snookered on your own object ball, you can elect to "push out". If you do so, you are penalized a scratch, however. You are not allowed to push out in such a way that you completely snooker the next player up.
- If you are not pushing out, and you fail to contact anything with the cue ball, you are penalized a scratch, and the next player in turn can either choose to shoot from where the cue ball lies, or can make you put the cue ball back as near as possible to where it was, and you have to shoot again from there.
- If the shooter strikes an opponent's ball first, instead of contacting their own ball first, then the shooter has to immediately pay double the scratch stakes to the player whose ball was illegally struck first. Also, the opponent's ball that was illegally struck is either left as it lies or replaced to its original position at the discretion of the opponent whose ball it is.