Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[davis_greatest]

what about if the cue-ball is angled (after a foul)?

rambon

Why should the referee pick up the ball then?

[snookersfun]

Why should the referee pick up the ball then?

...can be played from the D in that case, me thinks

[austrian_girl]

I think I've heard somewhere before (maybe I've dreamed it tho) that a ref can 'move' the whole situation of balls to another table if necessary. So, I'll go for something like: A frame is in progress and suddenly the water-pipe directly above the table ruptures and water is dripping onto the table. One of the players leads by let's say 40 points and doesn't want a re-rack, so the ref has to transfer all the remaining balls to another table and re-establish the situation as it was when the match was interrupted.

I find this a very creative suggestion, btw.

[Cyril]

I am cancelling that round as Cyril's ¼ point is insufficient, I feel.

I feel getting one player correct out of hundreds to choose from was a noble attempt!

[The Statman]

Still no correct answer – a clue: the referee would move the cue-ball (most likely), but only a minuscule amount.

[Cyril]

If the ref moved a ball by mistake?

[austrian_girl]

Maybe your often cited woodlouse was underneath the white and the ref wanted to save the animal from certain suffocating?

[Robert602]

Still no correct answer – a clue: the referee would move the cue-ball (most likely), but only a minuscule amount.

To clean it?

[davis_greatest]

...can be played from the D in that case, me thinks

after being angled from a foul? No, not in snooker.

[rambon]

Still no correct answer – a clue: the referee would move the cue-ball (most likely), but only a minuscule amount.

Are we back to talking about your woodlouse again??

I think I've seen the referee slightly move a ball to enable him to get to another ball.

i.e. He is asked to clean the pink, which is in the middle of all the reds, so to avoid moving all the reds, he will move one to allow access to the pink through a gap...

A certain amount of straw-clutching going on here now

[snookersfun]

... what about if the white nearly goes in-off, but doesn't and hangs on precariously for its life. Is it possible to move it a bit then?

[The Statman]

Rambon, your analogy with cleaning (or indeed spotting) the pink, requiring him to remove another ball that is impeding him, is a good one, but not right.

Another clue. It will always be either the cue-ball or a ball that is very, very close to the cue-ball.

[rambon]

Rambon, your analogy with cleaning (or indeed spotting) the pink, requiring him to remove another ball that is impeding him, is a good one, but not right.

Another clue. It will always be either the cue-ball or a ball that is very, very close to the cue-ball.

I'm out of ideas....

Is it if the cue ball is being touched by balls in such a way that it would be impossible to play a shot without playing a push shot?

[Cyril]

When a coloured ball is re-spotted it cannot be touching another ball. Sometimes, though, the ref will spot a ball and then it will 'move' slightly on the cloth so that it is touching another ball. The ref will then move them slightly apart again.

[The Statman]

When a coloured ball is re-spotted it cannot be touching another ball. Sometimes, though, the ref will spot a ball and then it will 'move' slightly on the cloth so that it is touching another ball. The ref will then move them slightly apart again.

You're along the right lines, but that could be ANY ball that is close to the colour's spot, not necessarily the cue-ball.

I feel we will get there soon, the point going to the first person who can be bothered to read throught the rules!

I have never known this situation come up, until Sunday when I was refereeing the Dorset Amateur final.