Danish pin billiards

Danish billiards or Keglebillard, sometimes called Danish five-pin billiards, is the traditional cue sport of Denmark, and the game remains predominantly played in that country.^[1] It makes use of a 5 × 10 ft (approximately 1.5 × 3 m) six-pocket table, three billiard balls, and five pins (skittles), which are considerably larger than those used in the internationally standardized (originally Italian) game of five-pin billiards.

Rules

The aim of the game is to achieve a predetermined number of points in as few shots as possible. The game is played with one red ball and two white balls. In an inversion of the normal play in most three-ball games such as carom billiards and English billiards, the red ball is used as a cue ball by both players, with the whites as the object balls. One way to score points is by knocking over one or more of the pins, for 2 points each, with a white object ball after hitting the white with the red cue ball (i.e. a combination ball-to-pin shot. The other point-scoring method (which may be used alone or in conjunction with the former in the same shot) is {{Cuegloss|Cannon|cannoning)) (caroming) the red cue ball off one white object ball and to the other white. Points are not scored by potting (pocketing) balls at all; the pockets simply serve as hazards. Nor are points scored for. Points are also not awarded for cannoning the red off a white into one or more pins, nor for a combination shot in which the red drives a white into contact with the other white.^{[2][clarification needed]}

References

1. ^ Pin Billiards
2. ^ Den Danske Billard Union (The Danish Billiard Union) - Official rules of Keglebillard