One-cushion billiards
Marco Zanetti at the 1986 Einband-Europameisterschaft | |
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Contact | No |
| Team members | Individual |
| Type | Cue sports |
| Equipment | Cue stick, billiard balls, billiard table |
| Venue | Billiard hall |
| Presence | |
| Olympic | No |
| Paralympic | No |
One-cushion billiards is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth-covered, 10-by-5-foot (3.0 m × 1.5 m), pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball. In a one-cushion shot, the plays must carom their cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the third Object ball in either order with at least one rail being struck before the hit on the second target ball, with one point being awarded for each successfully made. If there is ambiguity as to whether the second ball was contacted, it is resolved against the shooter. The game is won when an agreed-upon target score is reached.
One-cushion billiards is governed by the Union Mondiale de Billard, the world governing body of carom billiards.