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X-Plane

Entertainment; Games

X-Plane 10 Global is the world's most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers, and it offers the most realistic flight model available. X-Plane is not a game, but an ...

9 ball

Entertainment; Games

Nine-ball is a type of a pocket billiards played on a table with six pockets and with ten balls - a cue ball, and nine object balls numbered from 1 to 9. The objective is to pocket the 9 ball, ...

snooker

Entertainment; Games

Snooker is a billiard game played on a pool table with six pockets. Aside from the cue ball, there are 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colors: yellow, green, brown, ...

Carom, or carambole billiards, is a type of billiard game played on a pocketless table. The objective of the game is to score points by "caroming" one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball ...

scratch

Entertainment; Games

In pocket billiards games, "scratch" stands for pocketing of the cue ball. In most games, a scratch is a type of foul.

object ball

Entertainment; Games

Object ball refers to any ball other than the cue ball, or in a narrower context, any ball that can be legally potted in a given moment.

open table

Entertainment; Games

In eight-ball and related games, "open table" refers to the situation in which neither player has yet claimed a group (solids or stripes) of balls. The table normally stops being open when a player ...