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Carom with a cushion added: your cue ball must touch a cushion before it reaches the second ball.

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At a glance

Carom with a cushion added: your cue ball has to touch one before it reaches the second ball.

Family
Carom
Tutorial
2 spoken, subtitled tasks.
In the career
No.
Match length
First to 5, 8 or 12.
Played against
The computer on Easy, Normal or Hard, a friend at the same PC, in tournaments, or online.

The tutorial

The commentator talks you through each task, with subtitles. You play every one yourself, and play it again if you miss.

  1. A cushion on the wayHit the yellow, touch a cushion and reach the red
  2. First to eightScore the point that wins the 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 table and the balls

  • A ten-foot table with no pockets, and three balls a little larger than pool balls: a white, a yellow and a red.
  • Each player has a cue ball of their own for the whole game: white for the player who starts, yellow for the other. The red belongs to nobody. Your opponent's cue ball is, to you, just another ball to hit.

The opening shot

  • The red is on the foot spot and your opponent's ball on the head spot. Your own ball is on the head string, a hand's width to one side.
  • The opening shot has to hit the red first. A shot that reaches both balls but hits the other one first does not score.

Scoring

  • A point is scored when your cue ball hits both of the other balls in the same shot, and has touched a cushion at least once before it reaches the second of them.
  • The cushion can come before the first ball or between the two. Straight from one ball on to the other does not score.
  • Score, and you play again from where the balls have come to rest. Miss, and your opponent plays, with their own cue ball, from where everything lies.
  • The first player to 8 points wins. Another target can be chosen under Settings, Game.

What is not a foul

  • Nothing is potted and nothing is called. Missing both balls, or hitting only one, costs nothing but the turn. There is no ball in hand.

Fouls

  • Sending any ball off the table is a foul: the shot does not score, the turn passes, and the ball goes back on a spot (the red on the foot spot, the striker's ball on the head spot, the other ball in the middle).
  • If the shot clock runs out the turn passes and the balls stay where they are.
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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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