Pool
10-ball pool online
- Races to 3–9 racks
- WPA rules (2025)
- 9 ft table, or the 7 ft bar table
Ten numbered balls racked in a triangle, the 1 on the foot spot and the 10 in the middle. As in 9-ball the cue ball must always hit the lowest ball on the table first, but every shot is called: a ball and a pocket. Only the called ball in the called pocket keeps you at the table. The 10, pocketed as called when it is the last ball, wins the rack. Matches are races: first to win N racks.
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- Free
- No sign-up
- Online multiplayer
- Plays in your browser
10-ball rules
Scoring
- 10The 10Pocketed as called when it is the only ball left, it wins the rack; earlier it goes back on the foot spot
- 1Lowest ball firstThe first ball the cue ball touches must be the lowest-numbered one on the table
- →Call the shotTap the pocket; the lowest ball is called unless you tap another ball in the row of balls, or double-tap it on the table (a combination). No safety call
Fouls
After a foul the opponent has ball in hand anywhere on the table.
- Wrong ball first
- The cue ball touches another ball before the lowest one, or no ball at all.
- No cushion
- After the contact no ball is pocketed and none reaches a cushion.
- Scratch
- The cue ball goes into a pocket or off the table.
- Ball off the table
- An object ball jumps off the table: it stays off, except the 10.
- Three fouls in a row
- Three fouls in a row without a legal shot between them lose the rack (a warning comes after the second).
Calls, the break and the push-out
- A legal shot that pockets balls but not the called one (another ball, or another pocket) is not a foul: the balls stay down, and the opponent chooses who plays next.
- Breaks alternate. The cue ball is placed behind the head string and must hit the 1 first; the break must pocket a ball or drive at least four balls to a cushion, or it is a foul. Nothing is called on the break, and any ball it pockets keeps you at the table. There is no three-ball rule.
- After a break with no foul, the next shot may be declared a push-out: nothing is called, and the cue ball need not hit any ball or cushion. The opponent then chooses who plays.
- A 10 pocketed at any other time — on the break, a foul, or before it is the last ball — goes back on the foot spot.
The official rules
The rules above are the ones Biliardo Plus applies in a match, in short, and they are in the game too, in the Rules window. The full text is the federation’s (in Italian for FIBiS):
