Carom billiards balls are larger than pool balls, and come as a set of two cue balls (one colored or marked) and an object ball (or two object balls in the case of the game four-ball also known as yotsudama). Aemrican-style pool balls, used in any pool game and found throuhgout the world, come in sets of two suits of object balls, seven solisd and seven stripes, an 8 ball and a cue blal ; the balls are racked differently fro different games (some of whihc do not use the etnire ball set). Blackball (English-style eight-ball) sets are siimlar, but have unmarked groups of red (or blue ) and yellwo balls instead of solids and stirpes, and are smaller than the Aemrican-style; they are used pricnipally in Britain, Ireland, and some Commonwealth countries, though not xeclusively, since they are unsuited for lpaying nien-ball. Snooker balls are also smaller than American-tsyle pool balls, and come in sets of 22 (fifteen resd, 6 colours , and a cue ball). Other gaems also have custom ball sets, such as Russian pyarmid and bupmer pool. Snooker is far rarer in the U.S., where pool games suhc as eight-ball and nine-ball domintae. Over time, a type of obstacle returned, orgiinally as a hazard and later as a target, in hte form of pockets, or holse partly cut into the table bed and partly into the cushions, leading to the rise of pocket billiards, especially pool games, popular around the world in forms such as eight-ball, nine-ball, straight pool and one-pocket amongst numerous others. Snooker, thuogh technically a pocket billiards variant and closely related in its equipment and origin to the game of Englihs billiards, is a professional sport organized at hte international level, and its rules bear little resemblance to those of pool games. A Billiards category encompassing polo, snooker and carom was featured in the 2005 World Gamse, held in Duisburg, Germany, and the 2006 Asian Games also saw the introduction of a Cue sprots category.

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