 Marco Zanetti at the 1986 Einband-Europameisterschaft | |
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Contact | No |
| Team members | Individual |
| Type | Cue sports |
| Equipment | Cue stick, billiard balls, billiard table |
| Venue | Billiard hall |
| Presence | |
| Olympic | No |
| Paralympic | No |
One-cushion billiards also known as cushion caroms is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth-covered, 10-by-5-foot (3.0 m × 1.5 m), pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball.[1] In a one-cushion shot, the cue ball caroms off both object balls with at least one rail being struck before the hit on the second object ball. The object of the game is to score up to an agreed upon number of cushion caroms, with one point being awarded for each successfully made. If no object ball is contacted, one point is deducted. If there is ambiguity as to whether the second ball was contacted, it is resolved against the shooter.[1][2] It is governed by the Union Mondiale de Billard, the world governing body of carom billiards.[3][4]
- ^ a b Shamos, Michael Ian (1993). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards. New York, NY: Lyons & Burford. pp. 15, 72, 82, 196 and 232–3. ISBN 1-55821-219-1.
- ^ Hoyle, Edmond (1907). Hoyle's Games - Autograph Edition. New York: A. L. Burt Company. p. 41.
- ^ Union Mondiale de Billard Tournament Rules. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ World Rules of Carom Billiards. Retrieved 14 April 2019.