Miniatures – Mini 8 Ball (Billiards / Pool / Snooker / Carom) table with 2 cue sticks, 1 white ball, and 10 colored unnumbered balls. Functional game play. 1:12 scale model (A4 sized, please see last photo). Viral video man vs cat game. Brand new

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– If you are artistically inclined, here is a Youtube video for inspiration to make your own DIY miniature billiard table.

History
Cue sports evolved from ancient outdoor stick-and-ball games, generally referred to (retroactively) as “ground billiards”, a game similar in various respects, and closely related to, modern croquet, golf and hockey.

Billiards has been a popular game since the 15th century which is evident through its many mentions in the work of Shakespeare, including the famous line “let us to billiards” in Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07), the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots, in her billiard table cover in 1586, the dome on Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello, which conceals a billiard room he hid, as billiards was illegal in Virginia at that time; and through the many famous enthusiasts of the sport including, Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and many others.

The most common pool game, eight-ball is derived from an earlier game invented around 1900 and first popularised in 1925 under the name B.B.C. Co. Pool by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. The forerunner game was played with seven yellow and seven red balls, a black ball, and the cue ball. Today, numbered stripes and solids are preferred in most of the world, though the British-style variant (known as eight-ball pool or blackball) uses the traditional colors.

Eight-ball, in one variant or another, is played world-wide, is played by millions of amateur league players, and draws intense competition at professional and amateur tournaments using the WPA World Standardized Rules. However, the most intense competition in pool is in the game nine-ball, which has been the professional game of choice since the 1970s, with the decline of straight pool (also known as 14.1 continuous).

Nine-ball grew in popularity because of its speed, the increased role played by luck, and its suitability for television. Today there is some indication that the more difficult variant ten-ball may supplant nine-ball in pro play, but nine-ball is likely to remain the most popular gambling game for many years, and eight-ball the most popular recreational and amateur team one.