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UKEnglish 8-ball

The pub game: seven reds, seven yellows and the black, with no numbers, on a seven-foot table with tighter pockets. Pot all of your colour, then the black.

The table as a game of English 8-ball starts, with the scoreboard

As the game starts

A game of English 8-ball in first person, over the cue

Over the cue, in first person

At a glance

Reds against yellows on a small table with small pockets, as played in British pubs.

Family: Pool
Tutorial: None: it is taught by its page of the rule book.
In the career: No.
Played against: The computer on Easy, Normal or Hard, a friend at the same PC, in tournaments, or online.

Learning it

None: it is taught by its page of the rule book. 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.

How it is played here

To the same rules as 8-ball, with reds and yellows in place of solids and stripes and the black in place of the 8. See the 8-Ball tab for the break, fouls and the stalemate rule.
The table is open after the break. The first ball potted on a legal shot decides who has reds and who has yellows.
A foul gives the other player ball in hand anywhere on the table. There are no two visits after a foul, as some pub rules have.
Pot the black after all of your colour to win. Pot it early, pot it on a foul, or knock it off the table, and you lose.

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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