Snooker is another popular form of cue game. An example of a foul is hitting your opponent’s ball first. You should also watch out for fouls, resulting in your losing a turn. Most important, however, is that a player who pockets the black ball before clearing the table of their own balls loses immediately. There are also several different rules regarding this game. Each ball has a number, but in 'eight-ball' the order of potting them is optional. Solids are entirely one color, and stripes have a distinctive color band. The balls are divided into so-called 'solids' and 'stripes'. Potting the black ball in general ends the game. “Eight-ball' pool is the standard version of the game, where each player needs to pot seven colored balls, and then a single black ball. In addition to the standard 'eight-ball', though no less popular, are: blackball, nine-ball and snooker. In fact there are many different varieties of the games, which may have different rules, different numbers of colored balls, and even different table sizes.

It is often mistakenly equated with its most popular variant, which is the US 'eight-ball'. Pool is a game that has been known for a very long time.

Pool: the most popular varieties of the game