In the game 'billiards', or sometimes called 3-cushion billiards, there are only 3 balls used. One white, one yellow, and one red. But in the sport 'billiards', the traditional colors are yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, green, maroon, black, and white. In recent years, the purple and maroon have been replaced by pink and brown respectively since these colors show up better on TV.
The are no values to the balls in either pocket billiards or English Billiards.
In English Billiards, there are two white balls (one normally has spots on it to distinguish it from the other one) and one red ball.
In billiards the corner pocket means an opening in the billiards table into which the balls are struck into. There are also side pockets. the idea is to get the balls in to the pockets.
In English Billiards there are 3 balls. White, white with spot (or yellow ball) and red.
The terms pool and billiards may or may not refer to the same game. Pocket billiards is usually referred to as pool, and covers many different games, the most common being straight pool, 8 ball, and 9 ball. English Billiards is never referred to as pool, and uses only 3 balls. Snooker is never referred to as pool or billiards, but is a form of billiards, and uses special table markings and 22 balls.
Pool and billiards are similar to snooker as they are all cue sports played on a rectangular table with pockets. They involve using a cue stick to strike colored balls into pockets, with the objective being to score points by potting balls.
The English Billiards balls are either white or red.
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There are seven striped balls in billiards.
Billiards/pool.
15 ADD: Completely incorrect. This answer refers to pocket billiards, and more specifically "8 ball" or "boston" or "stripes and solids". In billiards, there are three balls. One of one color, and two of another.
In true Billiards there is only 1 red ball. In snooker there are 15 reds.