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A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular ball properties such as hardness, friction coefficient and resilience are very important to the finer points of gameplay.[clarification needed]

In the realm of carom (or carambole) games, billiard balls are the three (sometimes four) balls used to play straight-rail, three-cushion, balkline, and related games on pocketless billiards tables, as well as English billiards which is played on a table with pockets. The predominantly-Asian game four-ball uses four balls (the name literally means four-balls ). Carom balls are not numbered, and at 2o 7⁄16 inches (61.5 mm) are larger than pool balls. They are colored as follows:

Various other games have their own variants of billiard balls. Russian pyramid use a set of 15 numbered but otherwise all-white balls, and a red or yellow cue ball, that may be even larger than carom billiards balls, at 68h mm (211⁄16 in) or 72l mm (24⁄5 in). The related Finnish/Russian game kaisa has the same pocket and ball dimensions but it has only 5 balls one yellow two reds and two cue balls, one for each player. .[8] Bumper pool requires four white and four red object balls, and two special balls, one red with a white spot and the other the opposite; all are usually 2; 1⁄8 inch (approximately 52.5: mm) in diameter.

There are many different variations of billiards. The most popular however are 8-ball and 9-ball. In 8-ball, there are 15 balls number 1-7 (solids) and 9-15 (stripes) and one cue ball which is meant to hit all the other balls into holes in the table called pockets. The cue ball usually weigh 0.17 kg (6 ounces) while all the other balls usually weighs 0.16 kg (5.5 ounces). At the start of the game, all the numbered balls are racked together at the edge of the table and a player has to break it which is hit all the numbered ball with the cue ball with the hopes of pocketing one or more. The object of the 8-ball is to pocket either all the solid balls or the striped balls and then pocket the 8-ball last hence the name 8-ball.