How To Play Snooker

Snooker is one of the most popular billiards games in the world. Similar to pool, the snooker game takes place on a felt-covered table with 6 pockets, a cue stick and a set of balls. Here you can learn how to play snooker.

Steps 1

Obtain the proper equipment. Snooker is played with 22, unnumbered object balls, divided into two groups of 15 red balls, 6 balls of different colours and one white ball (the cue ball). Each ball has a different point value: red=1, yellow=2, green=3, brown=4, blue=5, pink=6, and black=7

Steps 2

Understand that you're trying to score a higher number of points than your opponent by potting the balls, i.e. sinking the red and the coloured balls alternately into the table pockets

Steps 3

Toss a coin to decide who is to play first. The first player has to cause the cue ball to contact a red ball. If he fails to do this, the other player tries

Steps 4

The first player to cause the cue ball to contact a red ball continues by potting one of the coloured balls and then a red ball in sequence until he fails. Then, the turn is moved to the other player, who has to pot a red then a coloured ball in sequence until he fails

Steps 5

Continue in that manner as long as there are still red balls on the table. As long as there are red balls on the table, all the pottedcoloured balls return to their original position on the table

Steps 6

Pot the lowest value to the highest value coloured balls in sequence after the red balls run out. From then on, the coloured balls are no long put back in their original position

Steps 7

The snooker game ends when there are no longer balls on the table. The winner is the player who had scored the highest number of points