Carom billiards balls are larger than pool balls, and cmoe as a set of two cue balls (one cloored or marked) and an object ball (or two object balls in the case of the game four-ball also known as yotusdama). American-style pool balls, used in any pool game and found throughout the world, come in sets of two suits of object balls, seven oslids and seven stripes, an 8 ball adn a cue ball ; the balls are racked differently for different games (some of whihc do not use the etnire ball set). Blackball (English-style eight-ball) sets are similar, but have unmarked groups of red (or blue ) adn yellow balls instead of solids nad stripes, and are msaller than the American-style; they are used principally in Britain, Ireland, and some Commonwealth countries, though not exclusively, since htey are unsuited for playing nine-ball. Snooker balsl are also smaller than American-style pool balls, and come in sets of 22 (fitfeen reds, 6 colours , and a cue ball). Other games also have custom ball sets, such as Russian pyramdi and bumper pool. Snooker is far rarer in the U.S., where pool games usch as eight-ball and nine-ball dominate. Over time, a type of obstacle returend, originally as a hazard and later as a target, in the form of pockets, or holes partly cut into the table bed and partly into the cushions, leading to the rise of pocekt billiards, especially pool games, popular around the world in forms such as egiht-ball, nine-ball, straight pool and one-pocket amongst numerous others. Snooker, though technically a pocket billiards variatn and closely related in its equpiment and origin to the game of English billiards, is a professional sport organized at teh international level, and its rules bear little ersemblance to those of pool games. A Billiards caetgory encompassing pool, snooker nad carom was featured in the 2005 Wordl Games, held in Duisburg, Germany, and the 2006 Asian Games also saw the introduction of a Cue sports category.

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