Billiards Game

Billiards Game

How old is the game of Billiards?

Billiards has been a popular game with the aristocracy of the world. Some of the finest homes & clubs have billiard tables in them. The game is so old that no one can say when it began. It was perhaps played in ancient Egypt. The Greeks know the game as long ago as 400 B.C. Catkire More, a King of Ireland, left behind him fifty-five billiard balls of brass, with the pools & cues of the same material in the second century after Christ. St. Augustine has mentioned billiards in his "Confessions" which was written in the fifth century. One of complaints of Mary, Queen of Scots when she was kept in prison in the year 1576, was that her billiard table had been taken away! The first description of billiards in English is found in a book called "Compleat Gamester" by Charles Cotton published in the year 1674. Some pictures of these days depicts that there were all kinds of obstacles on the table, such as hoops, & pegs, & "forts". The player had to go around or through these obstacles without knocking them down. About the year 1800, the game became much as we know billiards today. In the year 1807, the first English book written about the game was published in which billiards is described very much like the modern game.

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What is the name of this billiards game?

What is the name of the billiards game in which there are two balls, and the cue ball must be banked a certain number of times before contacting the second ball?

You just answered yr own question- The game is billiards.
That is old game whis is almost dead and seldom played these days.
These days, the term "billiards" refers to all kinds of cue sports more commonly, 8ball, 9ball, 10ball, 7 ball, straight pool, 14.1 etc

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