Snooker with FREE ball

[mythman69]

I played a game last night and my opponent picked a free ball and then miscued, hit the free ball and snookered me behind it. I know you can't do this (foul shot) but he said that because he still hit the free ball that it wasn't 4 points away. I said that a foul shot has a minimum of 4 points, but he said that all I could do was make him shoot again.

Am I right?

Thanks!

[cally]

How can a foul not carry any points away though.. you were right.

[mythman69]

Good - just making sure . . .

[vmax4steve]

Just another scenario to this question, if say I was on the green which was right behind the black and I had a free ball after a foul, nominated the brown and simply rolled up behind it, would the snookering ball be the brown or the black ?

[Gerry Armstrong]

Just another scenario to this question, if say I was on the green which was right behind the black and I had a free ball after a foul, nominated the brown and simply rolled up behind it, would the snookering ball be the brown or the black ?

Effective snookering ball in that scenario is the Brown.

[thebranstonman]

Just another scenario to this question, if say I was on the green which was right behind the black and I had a free ball after a foul, nominated the brown and simply rolled up behind it, would the snookering ball be the brown or the black ?

The brown would still be the snookering ball as it is the closest to the cue ball.


17. Snookered
(b) If the cue-ball is so obstructed from hitting a ball on by more than one
ball not on:
(i) the ball nearest to the cue-ball is considered to be the effective
snookering ball; and
(ii) should more than one obstructing ball be equidistant from
the cue-ball, all such balls will be considered to be effective
snookering balls.

[DawRef]

Just another scenario to this question, if say I was on the green which was right behind the black and I had a free ball after a foul, nominated the brown and simply rolled up behind it, would the snookering ball be the brown or the black ?

The brown would still be the snookering ball as it is the closest to the cue ball.

And it would be a foul - you cannot snooker behind the free ball unless only pink and black remain.

[vmax4steve]

The brown would still be the snookering ball as it is the closest to the cue ball.


17. Snookered
(b) If the cue-ball is so obstructed from hitting a ball on by more than one
ball not on:
(i) the ball nearest to the cue-ball is considered to be the effective
snookering ball; and
(ii) should more than one obstructing ball be equidistant from
the cue-ball, all such balls will be considered to be effective
snookering balls.

Yeah I thought as much