Snooker: Play Free on a Full-Size 12-Foot Table
Play snooker free on a full-size 12-foot table: reds and colours, breaks, fouls and the black ball finish, with real spin and cushion physics, against the computer, a friend or online. Six-red snooker included.
Options
The video plays in a small player in the corner and keeps going between shots, in 2D and 3D, Fill window and full screen. Turn the game's own sounds off in Options if you like. Only you hear it; nothing is shared with the other player.
Drag on the table to aim, then press on the cue stick, pull it back and let go to shoot (or use the power bar). With ball in hand, drag the white ball to place it. Keys: ← → aim (Shift = bigger steps), ↑ ↓ power, W A S D spin, J / Shift+J raise / lower the cue (jump shots), Space shoot, R replay, U undo, N new game, V 2D / 3D, K camera, Page Up Page Down tilt the 3D view, M music, G guide full / short / off, F full screen. Your games and settings stay in this browser.
Play someone online as a guest
No account needed. Make a game and send the link to a friend, or pick an open game from the list below. Every shot is worked out by the same physics on mes.fm's server and in both browsers, so you both see exactly the same table.
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Every shot is signed with your Hive account (the Hive Keychain extension or the Keychain phone app) and kept on the Hive blockchain for good. No mes.fm server decides anything: both browsers read the shots from the chain and run them through the same physics, which is written so every browser gets exactly the same result, so the whole game and its result are public and can't be changed. A shot takes about 3 to 6 seconds to reach the other player and costs no HIVE (only a little of your account's free Resource Credits).
Game: · who breaks: the setting above.
Empty = an open game anyone on Hive can join from the list below (it stays open for an hour). With a name, only that account can join: send them the link.
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Guest online games are kept on mes.fm's server for a few hours, then deleted. Only the game itself and the names you type are stored. Hive games and saved results are public and permanent, like everything on Hive; mes.fm only keeps a short list of open and recent Hive games so players can find each other.
Set shots to practise the skills that win games: straight pots, cuts, banks, combinations, draw and follow. Pot the ball (or balls) within the shots allowed without the cue ball going in. Your best results stay in this browser.
Kept in this browser only (nothing is uploaded), per game and level. Games left unfinished are not counted.
Snooker on a full-size table, free
Snooker is played on a 12-foot table with 15 reds and six colours, smaller balls and tight, rounded pockets. Pot a red (1 point), then a colour, then a red again, building a break; when the reds are gone, pot the colours in order from yellow to black. This version uses the real table size, ball size, spots, baulk line and D, with sliding and rolling physics and screw, stun and side spin. Play the computer at four levels, a friend on one device, or someone online. Six-red snooker (quicker frames) is in the game list, and the MES Billiards page has pool games and challenges.
Ball values
Red 1 · yellow 2 · green 3 · brown 4 · blue 5 · pink 6 · black 7. A maximum break with 15 reds is 147: fifteen reds each followed by the black, then all six colours.
The rules used here
- The break-off
- Start with the cue ball in hand inside the D and hit a red first.
- Reds and colours
- After potting a red you are on a colour: the colour you hit first is the one you nominate, and only that colour may go in. Colours potted while reds remain go back on their spots (or the highest free spot).
- The colours in order
- With no reds left, pot yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black in that order; these stay down.
- Fouls
- Hitting the wrong ball first, potting a ball that isn't on, potting the cue ball or missing everything gives the other player 4 points, or the value of the ball involved if higher (up to 7). The next player plays from where the cue ball stopped, or from the D if it went in.
- End of the frame
- The frame ends when the black goes in (or on a foul with only the black left). Level scores mean a re-spotted black.
- Simplified
- Free ball, the miss rule and touching balls are not modelled.
Snooker tips
- The safe break-off
- Clip the back red of the triangle thinly from near the yellow or green spot so the cue ball comes back off the cushions to baulk.
- Stay near the black
- Big breaks come from potting reds near the pink and black spots and coming back for the black each time.
- Count the points left
- The bar above the table shows the points still on the table: when you are further behind than that, you need snookers.
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