bowlliards
{{Short description|Pool game}}
Bowlliards or bowliards is a pool game often used as a training {{Cuegloss|drill}}. The game borrows aspects of ten-pin bowling, hence the name. The game is divided into ten frames where a player gets a maximum of two innings to {{Cuegloss|pocket}} ten balls.
Gameplay
At the start of each "frame" (round of play, in bowling terms), ten {{Cuegloss|Object ball|object balls}} are {{Cuegloss|racked}} in a triangle with the front ball placed at the {{Cuegloss|foot spot}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.bowlliards.net/ |title=Rules|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928121838/http://www.bowlliards.net/ |archivedate=2007-09-28 }}{{Verify credibility|date=July 2007}} The {{Cuegloss|cue ball}} is placed behind the {{Cuegloss|Head string|head string}} and the first player {{Cuegloss|breaks}}. After the break the player gets {{Cuegloss|ball in hand}} and tries to pocket as many balls as possible until missing. This is considered the first {{Cuegloss|Inning|inning}} of the frame. If there are still balls left on the table after the first inning, the player gets a second inning to attempt to finish clearing the table. Clearing all the balls on the first inning is called a strike, clearing any remaining balls on the second inning is called a spare. For details on scoring see the scoring section for ten-pin bowling.{{cite book | last = Shamos | first = Michael Ian | year = 1993 | title = The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards | publisher = Lyons & Burford | location = New York, NY | pages = 34 | isbn = 1-55821-219-1 | url = https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000sham }}