Welcome to Billiard Bowling a fun combination or two great games. You can play by yourself or with as many as 8 to 10 players. In bowling your goal is to knock down the 10 pins; in Billiard Bowling it is to sink the 10 balls. Like bowling you can compete for the best score or just enjoy playing and play to do better than the last time you played.
Any size pool table, standard pool equipment (cue, chalk, balls and rack) and Billiard Bowling score cards are all you need.
Players take turns just like bowling, each starting with a fresh rack.
1. Rack 10 Balls (Just like an 8-Ball rack without the last row).
2. Break the balls. All balls made on the break stay down.
3. In Bowling you get to bowl 2 balls to knock down all 10 pins. In Billiard Bowling you get 2 attempts (until you miss or scratch) to sink all 10 balls in any order in any pocket.
4. If you scratch (cue ball in pocket or off the table) that is a gutter ball and you score a 0 for that attempt, no matter how many balls are pocketed during the attempt or on the break.
5. At the end of each attempt mark the score on the Billiard Bowling score card. Scoring is the same as bowling; the number of balls pocketed on each attempt signifies the number of pins knocked down by a ball in bowling.
- Strike = break and run (10 points plus the points from the next 2 attempts).
- Spare = all remaining balls on second attempt (10 points plus the points from the next attempt).
- 1st Attempt = 10 – Number of balls still on the table.
- 2nd Attempt = (10 – 1st Attempt) – Number of balls still on the table.
6. Bowling has 10 frames; Billiard Bowling only has 5 frames. However you get the extra attempt in the last (5th) frame.
1. Ball-In-Hand (move the cue ball anywhere on the table) for the first shot of each attempt.
2. For more advanced players the balls must be shot in rotation (numerical order, like 9-Ball).
Click here for an example.
Play by yourself or with as many people as you can stand to wait for.