03 · English Billiards · three balls

Three balls. Six pockets.
Two, two, two, three.

The original game. Pots, cannons and in-offs, in any combination. SideSpin adds the twos and threes, watches the consecutive-stroke limits and counts you down to your target.

You track: Pots, cannons, in-offs, breaks
Format: First to your target (150 by default)
Rules: World Billiards

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In the app

Straight from the app.

Pots, cannons and in-offs each have their own button, worth what the rules say. The break builds as you tap, and SideSpin counts consecutive cannons and hazards towards the limits.

English billiards in landscape: Max 149 with a break of 149, Ollie 0, first to 150. A consecutive-hazard count of 5 is shown. Buttons: Pot red +3, Cannon +2, In-off red +3, Pot white +2, In-off white +2, No score, Foul +2 to opponent. — 149 and counting, one point from the frame

English billiards at the start of frame 2 with Ollie, on white, at the table: the buttons read Pot Yellow and In-off Yellow, the opponent's ball. — On white? The buttons read yellow

Frame over: Max wins 151 to 0. Cannons 19, hazards 38, best break 149, and a chart of points per visit showing the 149. — The 149 break, frame by frame

Frame over: Max wins 150 to 39 to lead 3 to 0. Best break 86; the visit chart shows 4, 86 and 60. — Breaks of 86 and 60 to close it out

Match complete: Max wins 4 to 0, best of 7. Cannons 77 (154 points) against 19, hazards 151 (448 points) against 12, best break 151, average break 60.2. — The match, in cannons and hazards

The rules, properly

The official rules, built in.

Both scoring modes follow the World Billiards rules and only accept legal shots. Standard keeps it to one tap a foul; Tournament records every detail a referee would.

RULE 01

Pot the red: three.

Tap it and SideSpin adds three. The red goes back on its spot.

RULE 02

Pot the other white: two.

Tap it and SideSpin adds two.

RULE 03

Cannon: two.

Your cue ball hits both other balls. Tap Cannon; if a pot came with it, tap that too and the score stacks.

RULE 04

In-off: three off the red, two off a white.

Your cue ball goes in after hitting another ball. Tap the in-off and the score follows.

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