Honolulu (pool)

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Honolulu is generally played between two competitors or teams. The game is played on a traditional pool table, with fifteen {{cuegloss|pool balls}}. The object of the game is to score eight points by pocketing balls in a legitimate manner. What is and what is not considered legitimate is where the game diverges from more common pool game objectives. In Honolulu, {{cuegloss|pocketing}} a ball directly is a foul shot.{{cite book|author1=Rather, Billie |author2=Rather, Megan |url=https://archive.org/details/poolpointers0000bill/page/78/mode/2up?q=Indirect|title=Pool Pointers |date=April 1992|pages=78–79 |publisher=Billing |isbn=0-380-76136-X}} Points can, however, be scored by completing {{Cuegloss|Bank shot/bank|banks}}, {{Cuegloss|Combination|combinations}}, {{Cuegloss|Carom|caroms}} or {{Cuegloss|Kick|kick shots}}. In addition, players may not play {{cuegloss|short-rail}} kicks, or kick from cushions into adjacent pockets.{{Cite book |title=The Complete Book of Billiards |first1=Mike |last1=Shamos |date=March 20, 2000 |publisher=Random House Value Publishing |isbn=9780517208694 |page=121}}{{cite book |last=Shamos |first=Mike |year=1993 |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards |publisher=Lyons & Burford |location=New York City |isbn=1-55821-219-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000sham/page/117 117] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000sham/page/117}}

Every shot must be {{cuegloss|called shot|called}}. Before a shot, players have to designate both the ball and target pocket.Billiard Congress of America (1995–2005). [http://www.bca-pool.com/play/tournaments/rules/rls_gen.shtml General Rules of Pocket Billiards - Rule 3.4] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205042454/http://bca-pool.com/play/tournaments/rules/rls_gen.shtml |date=December 5, 2006 }}. Retrieved December 21, 2006. Players may elect to {{Cuegloss|call}} more than one ball on a single shot, but all balls called must be correctly potted, or there is no score.{{Cite book |title=Billiards, Revised and Updated: The Official Rules And Records Book |author=Billiard Congress of America |date=May 1, 2005 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781461749929 }} At the start of a game, the balls are racked on a pool table's {{Cuegloss|foot spot}}, with a set of fifteen balls, placed in random order, and a cue ball. On the opening {{Cuegloss|break shot}}, the player must either call a ball out of the rack and an intended pocket, or cause two object balls and the cue ball to strike a rail. The failure to do so is a foul. Unlike other games of pool, there is no concession of a game after conceding three successive fouls.{{Cite book |title=Billiards, Revised and Updated |author= |pages=90–92 |date=1992 |publisher=Lyons Press |access-date=12 September 2022 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MrvNCwAAQBAJ |isbn=9781461749929}}

As in the similar game of one-pocket, the penalty for all fouls in Honolulu is the loss of a point, meaning one previously pocketed ball must be returned to the table's surface. Such {{Cuegloss|Spot (verb)|spotted}} balls are placed on the table as close as possible to the foot spot, and as close as possible to any balls already occupying that space in the direction of the {{Cuegloss|foot rail}}. If a player has no balls to spot, the penalty is owed, and at the end of the player's next scoring {{Cuegloss|inning}}, the requisite number of balls owed are replaced.{{cite book|title=Official file book for All Pocket & Carom Billiard Games|page=82 |year=1992|location=Iowa City|publisher=Billiard Congress of America}}

According to the Billiard Congress of America, the governing body for billiards in the United States, Honolulu presents players with "an unending kaleidoscope of strategic and shot-making challenges."{{cite book |author=BCA Rules Committee |title=Billiards - The Billiard Congress of America Official Rules and Records Book |edition=50th anniversary commemorative |publisher=Billiard Congress of America |location=Coralville, Iowa |date=1998 |pages=81–2, 132–3 |isbn=1-878493-08-6}}

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