Each Time a Ball is Roqueted

The responsibilities of the referee include announcing the points scored during a break, determining when a foul has been committed and awarding penalty points and free balls accordingly, replacing colours onto their designated spots after they are potted, restoring the balls to their previous positions after the "miss" rule has been invoked (see Scoring), and cleaning the cue ball or any object ball upon request by the striker. If the scores are equal when all of the object balls have been potted, the black is used as a tiebreaker. A traditional snooker scoreboard resembles an abacus and records the points scored by each player for the current frame in units and twenties, what is billiards as well as the frame scores. Snooker cue ball and other balls are normally 4.5mm smaller than the pool balls. The player must then play away from that ball without moving it or else the player will concede penalty points.

The colours must next be potted in the ascending order of their values, from lowest to highest, i.e. yellow first (worth two points), then green (three points), brown (four points), blue (five points), pink (six points), and finally black (seven points); each colour remains in the pocket after being potted. The tip of the cue must only make contact with the cue ball and is never used for striking any of the reds or colours directly. The player must then pot another red ball followed by another colour. The referee then tosses a coin and the winner of the toss decides who takes the first strike. Then a second fire hit the Edison Company at another location on December 9, at its film-processing complex in West Orange, New Jersey. Hanging your lights too low encourages damage because your patrons are more likely to hit them with their cue stick. At the start of a frame, the object balls are positioned on the table as shown in illustration A. Starting with the cue ball in the "D", the first player executes a break-off shot by striking the cue ball with the tip of their cue, aiming to hit any of the red balls in the triangular pack.

Snooker accessories include: chalk for the tip of the cue, to help apply spin on the cue ball; various different rests such as the swan or spider, for playing shots that are difficult to play by hand; extensions for lengthening the cue; a triangle for racking the reds; and a scoreboard, typically attached to a wall near the snooker table. These are shots that are designed to make playing a legal shot harder, such as leaving another ball between the cue ball and the object ball. A snooker ball set consists of twenty-two unmarked balls: fifteen reds, six colour balls and one white cue ball. Each segment of the string (bead) represents one point as the players can move one or several beads along the string. Professional and competitive amateur matches are officiated by a referee, who is charged with ensuring the proper conduct of players and making decisions "in the interests of fair play". However, lower-ranked professional players struggled to make a living from the sport, especially after paying tournament entry fees, travel, and other expenses. This is meant to deter players from scratching intentionally in order to hinder their opponent’s performance. From scratching on the break to scratching on the 8 ball.

The process of alternately potting reds and colours continues until the striker fails to pot the desired object ball or commits a foul-at which point the opponent comes to the table to start the next turn-or when there are no red balls remaining. The process of hitting the target balls with the cue balls as you make three rails in tandem is called ‘carom’. If the cue ball finishes in contact with an object ball, a touching ball is called. The two object balls (the 1 ball and the 2 ball) are placed at two separate locations. The two most important reasons are eye comfort and playability - some colors are easier on the eyes than others and make the balls and pockets easier to see clearly. Just when the reasons were drowsy with blood-sucking I heard the regular: "Let-us-take-and-heave-him-over" grunt of doolie-bearers in the compound. In the 2022-23 season, only two professional ranking tournaments were played outside the UK, the European Masters in Fürth and the German Masters in Berlin, while lucrative Chinese events remained off the calendar. And I have seen lawns where only the masters and not the undergraduates may walk, and staircases where only the graduates and not the students may play billiards; I have seen professors in rabbits’ fur and cloaks as red as lobsters, I have seen the graduates kneel and kiss the hand of the Vice-Chancellor; of all these wonders I have been able to make a drawing only of one venerable college provost, who poured out for me a glass of sherry at least as old as the elder Pitt.