How many balls can you pot in one?

[ADR147]

yes why not - a free ball on a colour and 15 reds so 16 but its not likely to turn up either way in a normal game eh!

[Semih_Sayginer]

yes why not - a free ball on a colour and 15 reds so 16 but its not likely to turn up either way in a normal game eh!

not likely but still "possible"...

...any advance on 16?

[missneworleans]

I don't think u can make 16! It will need toooooo much power!

[Semih_Sayginer]

I don't think u can make 16! It will need toooooo much power!

thats what the "" were put in for.

[missneworleans]

So why can't we talk about sth serious???

[Semih_Sayginer]

So why can't we talk about sth serious???

read the first post that opens the thread again.

i am on topic.

im fairly sure youre off topic with this post.

[ADR147]

power is no problem - its an easy shot in theory all you need is the 16 balls to have landed touching together down the bottom cush and you can roll them in, its the chances of it happening that are slim!

[Semih_Sayginer]

power is no problem - its an easy shot in theory all you need is the 16 balls to have landed touching together down the bottom cush and you can roll them in, its the chances of it happening that are slim!

id say it is. try i next time you play

[dannyd0g]

id say it is. try i next time you play

i agree - i think it would be virtually impossible to do without doing a kind of trundling push shot.

[Semih_Sayginer]

i agree - i think it would be virtually impossible to do without doing a kind of trundling push shot.

agreed dd

in theory 16 balls can be potted legall by doing this shot

the chances of it arising to be played is probably 1000000-1 or higher

then there making the shot....

its "possible", but almost certainly never likely to happen

[Robert602]

read the first post that opens the thread again.

i am on topic.

im fairly sure youre off topic with this post.

To be fair, the way I read the posts of the thread starter it sounds to me like he's looking for a playable (without inverted commas) trickshot. Correct me if I'm wrong Joe.

Steve Davis attempts 6 reds in one shot on a vid I have of the 2004 world trickshot championship. He doesn't get 6 but it looks doable if you've got a lot of time on your hands. I'll see if I can put that bit on youtube or something if you're interested.

[ADR147]

i thought the question was about theory - and in theory you can pot the 16 in one shot legally !!! i suspect to actually do it would need a very thin cut away shot with a lot of right hand side to prevent only the end ball from potting in effect a push but not quite!

[The Statman]

Six is possible

There is a way you can pot six reds in one shot. It is very possible on a pool table but requires very accurate set-up on a snooker table.

Look at the illustration below.

Reds 1 and 2 must be positioned so they are a direct plant to the top corner, and where red 1's path, at 90° to red 2's path, will take it into the centre pocket. Red 3 must be positioned so that it is a direct plant with red 1 to the bottom pocket. They should be positioned so that reds 1 and 3 are touching and red 2 very nearly touching red 1.

The three reds on the other side are, of course, a mirror image of the numbered reds.

The cue-ball is placed on the centre-line of the table and wants to hit both reds simultaneously at the pink spot. The gap between the reds must therefore be just under a ball's width – say about 1½ to 1¾ inches apart.

As I said earlier, you need to think of the effects of so-called 'squeeze' which occurs with a touching plant on a snooker table – best illustrated by trial and error – but the bigger pockets and shorter distances involved on a pool table make this negligible.

(You could of course have a red in the jaws of each pocket, which raises the likelihood of six reds going in – and you could with a lot of luck get a seventh if one of the original reds follows it in.)

[davis_greatest]

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(You could of course have a red in the jaws of each pocket, which raises the likelihood of six reds going in – and you could with a lot of luck get a seventh if one of the original reds follows it in.)

Nice picture! Or, of course, even pot all 12 reds if all 6 moving reds follow in the reds over the pockets.

I recall there was a discussion on the BBC 5 Live site some time ago over whether it were possible to pocket all 15 reds in one stroke. I think I was then - and remain - tended to the belief that it is possible (although would be extremely hard to set up and achieve)... although I know that the suggestion then attracted ridicule from some...

[Semih_Sayginer]

To be fair, the way I read the posts of the thread starter it sounds to me like he's looking for a playable (without inverted commas) trickshot. Correct me if I'm wrong Joe.

Steve Davis attempts 6 reds in one shot on a vid I have of the 2004 world trickshot championship. He doesn't get 6 but it looks doable if you've got a lot of time on your hands. I'll see if I can put that bit on youtube or something if you're interested.

to be fair...

This question really relates to a "trick shot".

Assuming you are allowed to arrange the balls any way you like, where would you put them and how many object balls can you pot in one stroke?

i reckon weve been answering the first post, and getting a post asking to talk about something serious, when weve (myself and ADR) made it clear what we are discussing is serious and its possible (though highly unlikely), along with a roll eyes smilie was, at least, impolite.