A new game at billiards has been invented—”Snooker’s pool.”

Stamford Mercury, Friday 06 December 1889

A new game at billiards has been invented—”Snooker’s pool.” It is a kind of “shell out,” which, as most billiard players know, is pyramids with any number of players, and not confined to two as in the ordinary game. Moreover, a certain number of coloured balls are on the table as well as the red ones, each having a different value indicated by a number on it. The players go in rotation, and no one can play at a numbered ball until he has holed a red one, the latter counting one, and the former being counted according to the number upon it. After having holed a numbered ball, another red hazard must be made before a numbered ball can be played upon again. That is the gist of the game.