smallest amount of points at end of game

[antstumble]

what is the smallest amount of points you can possibly have on the scoreboard at the end of a game after all the balls have been potted?

[Forman]

31?

pot all 15 reds with a foul shot then clear the colors

[checkSide]

0.

But your opponent might have 147. lol

[Wimm]

20-22 if all the balls are potted.

[tony17]

24 - 0

Player A pots a red and fails to pot a colour for 15 times ... therefore score is 15-0 ... then he pots the yellow, green and brown in succession that means the score is 24-0 with only 18pts remaining on the table. Player B concedes frame.

[ADR147]

i once scored 8 when the guy resigned because they were so well spread.

[antstumble]

forman is correct
you smash the pack up and all 15 reds go down and the white so you give away 4 points and then clear up

[ADR147]

why? the guy has already won before the black.

[Forman]

why? the guy has already won before the black.

the question in the first post says "at the end of the game after all the balls have been potted"

[submarine]

I once lost a very drunken frame with a mate playing with 10 reds by 30-29. I'm sure it was one of the crappiest frames the word has ever seen!

[ADR147]

the question in the first post says "at the end of the game after all the balls have been potted"

yes but you don't need to pot it.

[dantuck_7]

what is the smallest amount of points you can possibly have on the scoreboard at the end of a game after all the balls have been potted?

31?

pot all 15 reds with a foul shot then clear the colors

I agree - if every ball has to be potted. 15 reds and then the white trickles in and then you share the colours... so 16-15.

[Krypton]

these things come up every once in a while... about as realistic as the following scenario:

i pot all 15 reds, yellow, green, brown and blue with one stroke - foul 5.

the ref forgets to spot yellow, green, brown and blue. my opponent comes to the table, pots pink (as it's the lowest colour on the table). the smaller colours can NOT be respotted by now (after the pot on the pink).

in that case, he wins the frame with the final score of 11 - 0, as the black is not needed.

[dantuck_7]

The ref would have to be on a particularly lethal cocktail of class A drugs to do that!

[Krypton]

no, he was just so fascinated by my 15redyellowgreenbrownblue pot in the first shot...

i only "use" the rule that a ball which is not spotted will not be spotted after (after more shots have been taken), if the mistake is not noticed no the spot.