The Limited Game is very seldom played. In it the table is divided by a line, beyond which, if the striker passes his ball, he pays forfeit.
The One-hole Game.--All balls that go into one hole are counted at this game, and the player who best lays his ball at the brink of that particular hole, has the advantage. The lead should be given from that end of the table where the last hazard has been made.
. The Russian Carambole.—This game varies from the common carambole in the following particulars : The red ball is to be placed upon the usual spot ; but the player, at the commencement of the game, or after his ball has been holed, is at liberty to place it where lie pleases. The leader, instead of striking at the red ball, should lay his own gently behind it and the opponent may play at either of them. It the said opponent plays at and holes the red ball, he scores three ; then the red ball is to be replaced upon the spot, and the player may take his choice again, always following his stroke till both balls are off the table, he gains two points for every carambole ; but if, in doing that, he holes his own ball, thee he loses as many as he would otherwise have obtained ; and if he strikes at the red ball, caramboles and holes that ball and his own, he loses five points ; and when he holes all three balls he loses seven; which respective numbers he would have won had he not holed his own ball.
Fortcation Billiards.—First, there are ten wood en forts, in the form of castles, which are loaded with lead, so that they may keep their places. In the front of each fort, at the bottom, is an arch to ad. mit the ball, which is to be put through it to attack the fort, and within each arch a small bell is hung, Secondly, the pa'ss through which each of the ad versary's attacking balls must pass, before a fort caa be taken. Lastly, the grand batteries, and tea flags or colours.
Two of the forts, called the grand forts, are to lo?; made larger than the rest, and to have an arch cut. through them of the same size as the others. Five of the forts, including one of the grand forts, one of the batteries, and five of the flags or colours, are usually painted red, and the forts and battery like brick-work, which denotes them to be English ; ou each fort one red flag is to be hoisted on the centre of its front. The other five forts, grand fort inclu
ded, battery, and colours, are to be of a white colour ; the forts and battery to be painted with black like stone, are called French, and one white flag to be hoisted on each.
The pass, which serves for the purpose of both parties attacking balls to go through, is to be made in the form of the grand forts, but rather longer for distinction, and to have an arch of the size of the grand forts, and painted of different colours, viz. one of the ends where the arch is, of a red, to continue half way of each side, and the same on the top ; the other end of the arch is to be white, and to continue in the same colour over the other half. There are likewise two flags to be hoisted on the pass, viz. one red and the other white ; the red to be hoisted at the English, and the white at the French end. The pass is to be placed in the centre of the table, the red end facing the English, and the white end the French forts..
The limits of each party's quarter is from the end cushion, where his forts are placed, to his pass on each side of the table. The English forts are to possess one end of the table, called the English quarter, and the French forts the other end, called the French quarter. The two forts in each quarter in the first, angle from the pass are to be taken first, and are called the advanced forts. The two forts in the se. cond angle are to be taken next, which are called the reserved forts. Lastly, the grand fort, with the bat tery placed before it, is the last to be taken, The height of the advanced and the reserved forts is to be 5% inches, the breadth and length of the ad. vanced forts 5 inches to the square, and the length of the reserved forts are 5t inches, and the back of them to be rounded off. The height of the grand forts is to be .5t inches, the breadth and length 61 inches. The batteries arc made in a triangular form, the height of them are 3 inches, the breadth at the ex tremity are 22 inches, and the length 31 inches. The height of the pass is 5,1 inches, the breadth 61 inches, and the length 7 inches. The height of the concave in the forts where the attacking ball must enter, is 3 inches, the breadth 2; inches, and the depth 2-1 inches.