Five ball

Five Ball is a billiards variance of nine ball, played on any standard billiards table.

It was started at Northwestern University by Brian Zou and Patrick McCoy.

The rules of Five Ball are as follows:

Five Ball is traditionally played with the one, two, three, eight, and nine balls.

The five balls are arranged at the center of the billiards table, with the one ball forward, the eight ball in the center, and the nine ball as the trailing ball.

The break is made by one player, which is then alternated for subsequent games.

After the break, the first player to make a ball calls two of the four corner pockets, of which they have to be adjacent to each other. One cannot call diagonal corner pockets. The second player takes the other two pockets.

Once a player calls his pockets, they cannot make balls in the other player's pockets. The two side pockets are open pockets, thus either player can make balls in these pockets.

Players must make strike balls in sequential order and make balls in their own pockets. If they make a ball in the opposing players pockets, they do not get to continue to attempt shots.

The game is won when one player makes the nine ball in one of their pockets, or either of the two neutral pockets. The shot must be called beforehand and the player attempting the nine ball cannot sink the cue ball after making the nine ball and cannot make the nine ball in a pocket different from the one called, or they lose.

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