Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[Alex0paul]

This is bugging me, i really want to know the answer!!!

[Robert602]

On second thoughts, that probably wouldn't be a 'miss' either, would it?

Hmm, puzzling.

[Robert602]

Miscued 5 times in a row, causing an illegal jumpshot but fluking the yellow every time. Each time the balls were replaced.

Again, not technically a pot but worth a try maybe?

[davis_greatest]

Round Forty-Nine

In the first round match johnny cueless is seen to pot the yellow clean of its spot five times in a row without his opponent ever coming to the table and any other balls moving.

How did this happen?

Should "five times in a row" be assumed to mean that these are 5 consecutive shots (i.e. with no intervening shots)?

If - say - he knocks in the yellow and the white also goes in, would you count this as a "pot"?

[Alex0paul]

The ref and the opponent might be blind and the player pots 5 yellows to con the ref and opponent that he has cleared the colours?

[davis_greatest]

chasmmi, I assume the referee has not made any errors?

[Alex0paul]

He may shout something

[davis_greatest]

He was snookered and kept missing the intended ball by potting the yellow 5 times?

This would not be a "pot". A pot must be "when an object ball ... enters a pocket... without any infringement of [the] Rules". But, chasmmi, would you include this sort of situation to be a "pot" in your question?

[davis_greatest]

The yellow is potted as a free ball followed by another yellow. Then the other player fouls in some way that he creates another free ball. The yellow is used as the free ball followed by another yellow. Then another yellow is potted at the start of a clearance.
???????

I thought of something like that but surely there would be a red to pot first (before the "yellow at the start of the cleaance") if he is potting free ball and then yellow, twice.

And how does the opponent foul without coming to the table? Throws something at the ball marker while the referee is cleaning the cue ball? (Per The Statman's suggestion at a question I asked on the BBC site a couple of days ago!)

[Alex0paul]

The yellow is potted as a free ball followed by another yellow. Then the other player fouls in some way that he creates another free ball. The yellow is used as the free ball followed by another yellow. Then another yellow is potted at the start of a clearance.
???????

[davis_greatest]

Can I clarify:

a) Do you mean that the cue ball and the yellow ball moved, but in between the 1st pot and the 5th pot on the yellow, no other balls moved?

b) Do you mean "pot" in the usual sense of a legal pot, or are you including the sense where the yellow enters the pocket but where it might be a foul?

[chasmmi]

I admit that's possible but it's not what happened here.

[Alex0paul]

He was snookered and kept missing the intended ball by potting the yellow 5 times?

[chasmmi]

good Idea but no it was snooker.

[Alex0paul]

they were actually playing pool?