8 Ball Billiards

How 8-ball plays here

The classic ending, solo: clear the seven colours in any order you like, then sink the black 8 to finish. Pot the 8 while anything else still stands and you lose on the spot, however good the shot looked. The whole discipline is one long setup — every shot has to score and stay away from the black, right up until the black is the only thing left.

The table doesn't change

Every discipline is played on the same quiet table with the same honest physics. Press anywhere and pull back — the shot goes the opposite way, and the farther the pull, the harder the hit. A chalk line traces the cue ball to its first touch, with a ghost circle at the contact and a short tail showing where the struck ball will set off. Balls slide, then roll; thin cuts need real pace; and a ball smashed at the edge of a pocket rattles the jaws and can spit back out. Scratch the cue ball and it costs points and returns to its spot.

Combos still pay double and triple within one shot, the run multiplier still climbs to ×3 across scoring shots, and style still pays: clean pots, banks, double banks, kiss shots and long rolls all carry bonuses. The last ball is the jackpot — every shot you didn't need pays out on it. Only the laws about which ball may fall change between disciplines.

Is this the real thing?

It's the honest solo version of a traditional cue-sport discipline — 8-ball and 9-ball predate every branded pool app, and this game is an independent build with no relation to any of them. There is no opponent and no turn-taking; the parts of 8-Ball that need a second player are folded into the shot budget instead, so the discipline's actual skill (order, position, nerve) is what the table tests. The physics never rolls dice: the same shot on the same rack always lands the same way.

Other tables

• Billiards — the daily game: ten balls, thirteen shots, any order. One shared rack a day.
• 9 Ball Pool — Nine numbered balls, lowest first, and the 9 ends it.