Rules

[Mark1305]

I remember playing snooker as a boy where we played a rule that if
you potted the white and the white is placed in the D, that you could not play backwards for brown, blue or pink. I cannot find this rule anywhere. Have
the rules changed or was this never a snooker rule?

[steedee]

I remember playing snooker as a boy where we played a rule that if
you potted the white and the white is placed in the D, that you could not play backwards for brown, blue or pink. I cannot find this rule anywhere. Have
the rules changed or was this never a snooker rule?

im fairly certain it is never a rule.

people used to claim it was a pool rule to but it just isnt

[DawRef]

You can play the cue-ball in any dirction from within the 'D'. In billiards, however, the ball must cross the baulk line with the first stroke.