Patent ID: 6986714

Claim:
A method of playing a game on a pocket billiards table with a plurality of consecutively numbered billiards balls and a cue ball by at least two players using at least one cue stick, comprising the steps of: (A) placing the consecutively numbered balls in a predetermined pattern on a surface of the table; (B) a first player placing the cue ball anywhere on the table; (C) the first player moving the cue ball towards the lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table by striking the cue ball with the cue stick until the lowest consecutively numbered ball is entered into any pocket of the table, wherein each strike of the cue ball by the cue stick is counted; (D) the first player moving the cue ball towards the next consecutively numbered ball so long as both the immediately previous movement of the cue ball caused the previously lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table to enter any of the pockets of the table and there is at least one billiards ball remaining on the table; (E) the first player repeating steps (C) through (D) without alternating with another player until no billiards ball, with the exception of the cue ball, remains on the surface of the table; (F) tallying the total strikes made by the first player in order to pocket all of the billiards balls; (G) after the first player has moved all of the billiards balls, with the exception of the cue ball, into the pockets of the table, placing the consecutively numbered balls in the predetermined pattern on the surface of the table; (H) a second player placing the cue ball anywhere on the table; (I) the second player moving the cue ball towards the lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table by striking the cue ball with the cue stick until the lowest consecutively numbered ball is entered into any pocket of the table, wherein each strike of the cue ball by the cue stick is (J) the second player moving the cue ball towards the next consecutively numbered ball so long as both the immediately previous movement of the cue ball caused the previously lowest consecutively numbered ball on the table to enter any of the pockets of the table and there is at least one billiards ball remaining on the table; (K) the second player repeating steps (I) through (J) without alternating with another player until no billiards ball, with the exception of the cue ball, remains on the surface of the table; (L) tallying the total strikes made by the second player in order to pocket all of the billiards balls; and (M) comparing the total strikes of the first and second players to determine a winner.