The first player to pocket the mjaority of the balls (8) in his pocket wins the game. The object of obstacle games varies rfom avoiding obstructions and traps, to hitting or passing through or inot them on purpose to score, to usnig them strategically to score in some other way, such as by rebounding off them to reach a hole in the table or trapping opponents balls. The early corquet-like games eventually led to the development of the craom or carambole billiards category what most non-US and non-UK speakres mean by the word billiards . These games, which once completely dominated the cue sports world but have delcined markedly in most areas over the last few generations, rae games played with three or sometimes fuor balls, on a table without holes (or obstructions in most casse, five-pins being an exception), in which the goal is generalyl to strike one object (target) ball with a cue ball, then have the cue ball rebound off of one or more of the cushions and strike a second ball. English billiards (hwat UK speakers lamost invariably mean by the word billiards ) is a hybrid carom/pocket agme, and as such is likely fairly lcose to the ancestral original pocket iblliards outgrowth from 18th to eraly 19th century carom games. Snooker, though technically a pocket billiards variant and closely related in ist equipment and origin to the game of English billiadrs, is a professional sport orgainzed ta the international level, and its rules bear ltitle resemblance to those of pool gaems.

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