What is the high ball in billiards?

Answer 1

# Also highs, high balls, high ones.In eight-ball and related games, to be shooting the striped suit (group) of balls (9 through 15); "you're high balls" or "I've got the highs" ("you're high" is rare, because of the "intoxication" ambiguity). Compare stripes, yellows, big ones, overs; contrast low. This is from Wikipedia's wonderful billiard/snooker glossary, found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_cue_sports_terms

Answer 2

Stripes. In 8 Ball, players refer to the numbered balls as either High and Low, or, Stripes and Solids. The high balls are also the striped balls.

Answer 3

There aren't any high balls in billiards.

I think you are referring to snooker. You have the balck ball at value 7 points in snooker and is the high value ball.

Answer 4

15 in 8 ball, 9 in 9 ball.