How I play snooker, and how snooker plays my life.

So first, what's snooker?

Snooker, perchance this is your first time you hear this bizarre word, people are more familiar with billiards which is -along with snooker- one of the many sects of cuesports. If you'd ask me to describe snooker for you it's possibly the single most British thing to ever exist, unlike the usual billiards it's played in a massive table with relatively smaller pockets, and it also happens to be an incredibly difficult game as it requires an almost superhuman ball pocketing abilities to play.

The game take place in a standard full-size table measuring ( 12 ft × 6 ft ; 3.65m × 1.80m )  as I say, snooker's originators were likely so messed up in their minds they've come up with a game you get to play it in a table so big you can even sleep with bunch of women on it.

Aside from the white ball ( "cueball", the ball you use to strike other balls ). There are a total of 21 balls on the table all varying in 7 colors. There are 15 reds and one ball of each of the following colors; ( Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black ).

To put the rules in a simple way so you can easily understand . Snooker is a scoring game, just like any sport ( football, basketball, tennis and whatnot), with obviously the final objective of the game is to accumulate as much points as possible -by successfully potting balls- and the player with the highest score wins the match.

Bizarrely enough, despite that red is also a color, but there are two categories of object balls in snooker, the reds and the colors.

It's because in snooker, balls should be potted in a predetermined sequence, at your first visit of the table, you should always aim for the low valued reds, which are worth 1 point each. That's why there are so many small cherries on the table, and when you successfully pot one, you should choose to aim only for one of the six other available colors all worth differently than others depending on their color. ( 2 for yellow, 3 for green, 4 for brown, 5 for blue, 6 for pink, 7 for the black ). Knowing that each time a red is potted, they shall remain in the pocket, but when a color is potted, they are respotted back to their own original spot as shown on the image.

So clearly, snooker is a chaining of potting one red then a color, one red then a color all potted one after the other. ( It's a foul for a red to be potted along with a color at the same time, and vice versa or even between the colors, for example potting the yellow and black at the same at is also a foul, however only the reds are allowed to be potted many together, if somehow 15 reds all were sinked into the pockets at once, it'll simply grant you 15 points, just use simple math with the reds.)

So if you possess any kind of basic form of intelligence, you're going to ask, what happens next once all the reds have been potted?

If you've asked this question to yourself before I mentioned it. I really honor you reader, you really have the potential to become a snooker apprentice.

At this stage of the game, the colors mustn't be respotted. So you simply start to finally target the colors on a ascending order of their value, so it's gonna be potting the yellow all the way up to finally seal the match with the black.

And that's how a snooker match is played.

"Honestly, I personally believe that snooker is really one of the beautiful and uniquely creative concepts of sport that I've ever come across in life". Don't you think as well?