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Snooker is a sport played on the table covered with a green mat and deals with the cues. The large table is covered with a special mat called baize and the table has six pockets. Four pockets, one at each of the four corners whereas two pockets are in the horizontal midpoint of the table. The cue balls are hit using a stick and the basic objective is to get the desired cue ball into the pocket. The table on which the snooker is played is 12 ft. long and about 6 ft. wide. The balls are of different colors and each has different value. There are 15 red balls which are worth one point when made to go into the pocket. There are six balls of different colors and point value too apart from those red balls. The yellow ball is worth two points. The green, brown, blue, pink and black are successively worth one more point than the former with green starting at 3 points and black having 7 points.
A player wins the snooker game, also called a frame when he/she scores more points than their opponents. But the player can pot the ball only according to the predefined order as described by the rules of snooker. Until the red balls are finished from the table the player must pot a red ball and then he/she is allowed to pot a colored ball of his/her choice. To score a point only that colored ball should be pocketed, which is touched first. Otherwise it will be called a foul and a minimum of 4 points and a maximum of 7 points can be awarded to the opposite player for committing a foul. In this way, the player scoring the most points when there is no ball left on the table is the winner of that frame. After winning a certain no. of frame the player wins the game.
