Pool Drinking Games
On top of being highly respected Olympic sports, billiards traditionally belongs to the family of drinking games or pub games. These drinking or pub games involve sipping large amounts of beer, as penalize for foul, declaration of victory or any other part of the game rules. Since lots of pubs include a pool table (or more) as part of their setting, many variations of standard pool games were reinvented as drinking games.
Stripes and Solids, for example, is a drinking variation of 8 ball pool. As all drinking games, it doesn’t have an obliging set of rules and it rules may vary from one place to another.
In short, the group of solid balls is placed in the normal location of the rack. The striped balls are organized along the side rails of the pool table. The goal of the pool-drinking game is to pocket all striped balls. When a player pockets a ball he must drink the number of the pocketed ball. All pocketed solid balls are being re-spotted, as long as there are still striped balls on the table. When the last of the striped balls is pocketed, the game is over.
Another drinking game inspired of the billiards world is Shot Pool, which is a drinking variation of snooker. To play the game you must have the standard snooker equipment, beer, red bull vodka, black Russian and a steal liver. The game is played according to ordinary snooker rules with some drinking additions. Each time a player pots a red ball he has to drink the red drink and when a colored ball is potted, the player swigs beer. The winner of the game swallows a dose of black Russian, or orders the losing player to drink it.
