Pool and Billiards
Thirty-two tables at a 3.6 MB median, under half the catalogue. And no, none of them is a swimming pool.
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Thirty-two tables, picked one at a time. Two things worth saying before you start.
How this list is put together
One: this is not a swimming pool
English has a problem with this word, and the numbers show it:
| what gets searched | per month |
|---|---|
| eight ball pool games | 5,200 |
| pool table dimensions | 4,600 |
| online pool games | 2,700 |
| eight ball pool rewards | 2,400 |
| billiards and snooker | 2,400 |
| pool playing techniques | 2,300 |
| eight ball pool virtual currency | 2,100 |
| nine ball pool rules | 2,000 |
| pool games | 1,800 |
| multi game pool tables | 1,800 |
| billiards online games | 1,700 |
| four ball billiards | 1,400 |
| pool party ideas | 1,300 |
| backrooms pool rooms | 729 |
| real money pool games | 714 |
| swimming pool games | 554 |
The three in bold are water. Our own catalogue has the same trouble: searching it for "pool" returns a motocross game called Moto X3M Pool Party, a football fixture called Liverpool vs Real, and a merge game called Merge Monster: Pool Party. None of them is on this page.
Two: this is not the app
eight ball pool rewards 2,400 and eight ball pool virtual currency 2,100 are not people
looking for a game to play. They are people looking for coins inside somebody else's game —
Miniclip's 8 Ball Pool, which has an account, a currency and a shop.
We do not have it and we do not have a copy of it. There is nothing to buy on this page and
nothing to log into, which also rules out the 714 monthly searches for real money pool games.
What is actually here
| what they are | how many |
|---|---|
| 8 ball and American pool | 27 |
| two players, one keyboard | 3 |
| snooker | 1 |
| carrom | 2 |
Plus one Russian pyramid — oversized balls, narrow pockets, almost nothing goes in.
Carrom deserves a line: an Indian board where you flick wooden discs into corner pockets with a finger. It is not billiards, but the thinking is identical — angle, force, spin.
No nine-ball, despite 2,000 monthly searches for its rules. And no carom at all: the pocketless three-ball game is the national form in France and the whole catalogue has not one table of it. Italy's own game, played with pins in the middle, is missing too. Small browser studios build 8 ball because 8 ball travels.
Three point six megabytes
The median here is 3.6 MB against 7.8 MB for the catalogue — under half. It is the eighth lightest of eighty-one groups: games for a low-end PC sit at 1.5 MB and chess at 1.6. For something running real physics, that is good going.
The reason is pleasingly simple: a pool table is a green rectangle, sixteen spheres and a collision solver. No city, no sky, no animals. It is the exact opposite of the car shelf, whose median is 14.5 MB.
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Seven of thirty-two are marked for touch, and aiming with a finger works better than you would expect: the aim is a line you drag, not a precise click.
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Is this pool as in the table, or pool as in swimming?
The table. It matters: `swimming pool games`, `pool party ideas` and `backrooms pool rooms` add up to about 2,600 searches a month on the same word, and our own catalogue kept offering us a motocross game called Moto X3M Pool Party. Every one of these thirty-two has a cue in it.
Are these 8 Ball Pool, the app?
No. `eight ball pool rewards` and `eight ball pool virtual currency` pull 4,500 searches a month between them, and that is Miniclip's game and its coin economy. These are separate browser games with no accounts, no coins and nothing to buy.
Is there nine-ball, snooker or carom?
One snooker and one Russian pyramid. No nine-ball and no carom — three-cushion carom is the national game in France and the catalogue has not a single table of it.
Can two people play?
Three of them, on one keyboard, passing the mouse. There is no online match against a stranger.
Why are they so light?
Because a pool table is a green rectangle, sixteen spheres and a collision solver. The median here is 3.6 MB against 7.8 MB for the catalogue — under half, and among the ten lightest collections on the site.