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Balkline
Balkline is a discipline within carom billiards played on a pocketless table that features dividing lines drawn across its surface. Adopted in competitive tournament play in 1883, the game was specifically designed to counter the repetitive nursing technique used in straight-rail billiards, where pl...
apps Top Balkline Alternatives
The top alternative to Balkline in 2026 is Pool with a score of 9.3/10, followed by Eight-Ball Pool (8.4) and Nine-Ball Pool (8.3).
Pool
Pool, also known as pocket billiards, is a family of cue sports played on a six-pocket table where the objective is to s...
Eight-Ball Pool
Eight-ball pool is a classic stick sport played on a table with numbered and patterned balls. Players aim to sink the 8-...
Nine-Ball Pool
Nine-Ball Pool is a competitive stick sport played on a billiard table. It’s notable for its strategic focus; players ai...
Straight Pool (14.1 Continuous)
Straight Pool is a traditional cue sport played on a dedicated pool table. It’s notable for its emphasis on precise shot...
Balkline billiards
Balkline billiards is a family of carom billiards games played on a pocketless table with three balls. Lines divide the...
Ten-Ball Pool
Ten-ball is a rotation pool discipline played with a cue ball and ten numbered object balls. Players contact the lowest-...
One-Pocket Pool
One-pocket is a pool discipline in which each player is assigned one of the table's two corner pockets at the foot end....
Free pyramid
Free pyramid, also known as Russian pyramid, is a pocket billiards variant played on a table with smaller pockets and la...
Cushion caroms
Cushion caroms is a carom billiards discipline that originated in the late 1860s. It is distinguished from other carom g...
Combined pyramid
Combined pyramid, also known as Moscow pyramid, is a recognized variant of Russian pyramid billiards played on a large t...
Straight rail
Straight rail, originally known as carom billiards, is a foundational cue sport played on a pocketless table with three...
Five-pins
Five-pins, or five-pin billiards, is a carom billiards discipline associated especially with Italy and governed internat...
Four-ball billiards
Four-ball billiards is a carom cue sport played on a heated, pocketless table using two cue balls and two object balls....
Sinuca brasileira
Sinuca brasileira is a Brazilian cue-sport variant related to snooker. A standard game uses one red ball and six colored...
Boccette
Boccette is an Italian billiards game played without cues, using balls thrown by hand on a carom table. Its equipment an...
Cutthroat
Cutthroat is a pool game most commonly played by three people, although additional-player variants exist. Each player is...
Danish pin billiards
Danish pin billiards, known in Denmark as keglebillard, is a cue sport played on a billiards table with a red cue ball,...
Pin billiards
Pin billiards is a family of billiards games in which pins or skittles are placed on the table as targets or obstacles....
Cribbage pool
Cribbage pool is a two-player pocket billiards game, notable for scoring pairs of numbered balls that total 15, with the...
Golf pool
Golf pool is a pocket billiards game usually played on a snooker table, notable for sending each player's ball through p...
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