4 ball three cushion billiards

[chasmmi]

Here in Korea land cue sports are popular, well jut the one, thing is I have no idea what this game is or whether it exists outside of Korea.

It is basically 3 cushion billiards, you know no pockets, have to canon off three cushions, but here is the thing. The two players have a white each and have to anon and red and a yellow ball without hitting the opponents white.

Does this game exist or is it a Korean thing?

[Semih_Sayginer]

the game exists, and is rumoured to have been played for over 60 years in korea.

as far as im aware it gets played outside korea, but usually as an alternative, and rarely as the "chosen version".

[Sarmu]

I believe the game is called Yotsudama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsudama

Dunno if the game exist outside Korea, but there is one Korea pool place here that has this game that you've described, only difference is that they don't have to cannon off 3 cushion, and they use 2 red balls and 2 white balls, with one white ball has a dot on it.

[missneworleans]

Hmm..interesting game but never heared abot it

[APK]

The basic idea sounds like Carom. There are several versions of Carom depending on how many cushions have to be hit before the canon.
There is some info here-
http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Carambole.htm

[TheStranger]

I've mentioned in a thread previously on TSF that there is actually a Korean carom billiard hall out here in metro Sacramento (just outside the city limits by a mile or so) that actually offers both traditional 3-cushion, and yotsudama, which is more like a four-ball version of straightrail (one of the predecessor games to English billiards).

Surprisingly (and maybe this is a result of the larger balls and faster tables of today), I don't see any nurse techniques in use with yotsudama, unlike what English billiards and straightrail once had more commonly.