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Boccette
Boccette is an Italian billiards game played without cues, using balls thrown by hand on a carom table. Its equipment and layout connect it with Italian five-pin billiards, in which pins are placed on the playing surface and the balls are used to score through collisions. The game is intended for players familiar with carom-style table games and hand-played ball control.
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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 players could score indefinitely by keeping the balls trapped in a corner. The rules dictate that at l...
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