Honolulu (pool)
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Honolulu, also known as banks, kisses and combinations, and as indirect, is a pocket billiards
game in which players must all shots in an indirect fashion to reach a set number of points. According to the Billiard Congress of America
, the governing body for billiards
in the United States, Honolulu presents players with "an unending kaleidoscope of strategic and shot-making challenges."
One additional dictum is that kick shots cannot be made by "short-rail kicks." This means that for a legal kick shot, the cue ball must be first banked off a unconnected with the target pocket. Just like all call-shot games, under official rules it is never necessary to call every detail of a shot – indeed, not even whether a shot will be a bank, kiss, combination or kick – the only details necessary are to designate the ball and target pocket. Honolulu also follows the 1985 Vaso Amendment. Under it, a player may elect to more than one ball on a single shot, but all balls thus called must be potted in the pocket(s) designated or none count.
At the start of honolulu, the balls are racked
on a pool table's , with a full set of fifteen placed in random order. On the opening , the player must either call a ball out of the rack and an intended pocket, or cause two object balls and the cue ball to strike a rail. The failure to do so is a foul.
As in the more prevalent game of one-pocket, the penalty for all fouls in Honolulu is the loss of a point, meaning one previously pocketed ball must be returned to the table's surface. Such balls are placed on the table's long string as close as possible to the foot spot, and frozen or as close as possible to frozen to any balls already occupying that space in the direction of the . However, if the occupying ball is the cue ball, the spotted ball shall not be frozen to it. If a player has no balls to spot, the penalty is owed, and at the end of the player's next scoring , the requisite number of balls owed are replaced.
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
game in which players must all shots in an indirect fashion to reach a set number of points. According to the Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America is a governing body for cue sports in North America , the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association...
, the governing body for billiards
Billiards
Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...
in the United States, Honolulu presents players with "an unending kaleidoscope of strategic and shot-making challenges."
Rules
Honolulu is generally played between two players or two teams. The object of the game is to score 8 points by pocketing 8 balls in a legitimate manner. What is and what is not considered legitimate is where the game diverges from more common pool game objectives. In Honolulu, "straight-in" shots are absolutely forbidden. Scoring shots are limited to: 1) ; 2) ; 3) /; 4) ; or 5) some composite thereof.One additional dictum is that kick shots cannot be made by "short-rail kicks." This means that for a legal kick shot, the cue ball must be first banked off a unconnected with the target pocket. Just like all call-shot games, under official rules it is never necessary to call every detail of a shot – indeed, not even whether a shot will be a bank, kiss, combination or kick – the only details necessary are to designate the ball and target pocket. Honolulu also follows the 1985 Vaso Amendment. Under it, a player may elect to more than one ball on a single shot, but all balls thus called must be potted in the pocket(s) designated or none count.
At the start of honolulu, the balls are racked
Rack (billiards)
A rack is the name given to a frame used to organize billiard balls at the beginning of a game. Rack may also be used as a verb to describe the act of setting billiard balls in starting position in billiards games that make use of racks , as well as a noun to describe the balls in that starting...
on a pool table's , with a full set of fifteen placed in random order. On the opening , the player must either call a ball out of the rack and an intended pocket, or cause two object balls and the cue ball to strike a rail. The failure to do so is a foul.
As in the more prevalent game of one-pocket, the penalty for all fouls in Honolulu is the loss of a point, meaning one previously pocketed ball must be returned to the table's surface. Such balls are placed on the table's long string as close as possible to the foot spot, and frozen or as close as possible to frozen to any balls already occupying that space in the direction of the . However, if the occupying ball is the cue ball, the spotted ball shall not be frozen to it. If a player has no balls to spot, the penalty is owed, and at the end of the player's next scoring , the requisite number of balls owed are replaced.