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1010-Ball

Balls 1 to 10 only. The cue ball must always hit the lowest ball on the table first, and whoever pots the 10 wins the rack.

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At a glance

9-ball with one ball more and every shot called.

Family
Pool
Tutorial
It has none of its own: it is played the way 9-ball is, and the 9-ball tutorial says so.
In the career
Yes.
Match length
A single rack, or a race to 3, 5 or 7.
Played against
The computer on Easy, Normal or Hard, a friend at the same PC, in tournaments, or online.

Learning it

It has none of its own: it is played the way 9-ball is, and the 9-ball tutorial says so. The 8-ball tutorial teaches aiming, power, spin and everything else that is the same in every game.

The rules

As the game plays them, word for word from the rule book that is a click away in the game's menu and in the middle of any match.

The rack and the break

  • The balls are racked in a triangle of ten, the 1 at the front on the foot spot and the 10 in the middle of the third row. The breaker places the cue ball anywhere behind the head string.
  • The break must hit the 1 first, and either pot a ball or send at least four balls to a cushion. Anything less is a foul like any other.
  • The 10 potted on a legal break wins the rack.

A legal shot

  • The cue ball must hit the lowest-numbered ball on the table first.
  • After that hit, a ball must be potted, or some ball must reach a cushion.
  • Shots are not called. Pot any ball on a legal shot and you stay at the table; pot nothing and the turn passes.

Winning

  • Pot the 10 on any legal shot: last of all, or early, off a lower ball. It does not have to be called.
  • Three fouls in a row by one player lose that player the rack. A warning is given after the second.

Fouls

  • Potting the cue ball, or sending it off the table.
  • Hitting nothing, or hitting a ball other than the lowest first.
  • No ball potted and no ball reaching a cushion after the hit.
  • Driving any ball off the table.
  • After a foul the other player has ball in hand anywhere on the table.
  • Balls potted on a foul stay down, except the 10, which goes back on the foot spot.

The push-out

  • On the shot straight after a legal break, the player at the table may press Push before shooting. On a push-out the cue ball need not hit anything or reach a cushion.
  • The other player then chooses: shoot from there, or pass the shot back. Balls potted on a push-out stay down, except the 10, which is spotted. Potting the cue ball on a push-out is still a foul.

Stalemate

  • After six turns in a row with nothing potted the players are warned. Three more turns each and the rack is played again, the same player breaking.

Played here without called shots

  • Tournament 10-ball is a call-shot game. Here it is played like 9-ball with one more ball: nothing is called, and the 10 on the break or off an early combination wins.
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Try it, free

The demo is 8-ball in the Classic Room, with its whole spoken tutorial, a practice table and a computer player, for Windows, Linux and macOS. The full game will be sold only on Steam, at $12.99.

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