Carom Billiard Games: Rules

Carom billiards is a type of billiards played on a billiard table with no pockets. The most popular carom billiard games are three-cushions billiard, balkline, straight-rail billiards, etc. Carom billiard games are played with a set of 3 balls that consist of two cue balls and one object ball known as the red ball. The object of most carom billiard games is to score the highest by contacting both object balls (the red ball and the opponent's object ball).

Here you can find detailed introduction to carom billiard games rules:

Carom Billiards Equipment

The sizes of a standardized carom billiard tables can range from 4X8 foot to 6X12 foot. The carom billiard table has no pockets and it is spotted on the head, foot and centre strings as well as on the head spot. A set of carom billiard balls include two cue balls - a clear ball and a spot ball.

Opening Break Shot

On the opening break shot, the red balls is put on the foot spot, the opponent's cue ball on the head spot and the breaker's cue ball on the head string, 6 inches away from the centre spot. In order to execute a legal opening break shot, the breaker must cause the cue ball to make its first contact with the red ball.

Fouls in Carom Billiard Games

These acts are considered as fouls in carom billiard games:

To play out of turn

To contact any ball unintentionally

To strike the cue ball twice

To contact the cue ball with anything but the cue tip

To start shooting before the balls have stopped moving on the table

To shot the wrong cue ball

To cause the cue ball to jump off the table

Penalizes for Fouls

A player who has committed a foul will lose his turn and one point of his score.

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