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Games I found, but sadly lost the original source links to

  1. Ball assigned pockets → Two Ball Golf (alternativ)
  2. Games which use cards → Killer Cards
  3. Coloured balls games → Bonus Ball (Aramith)
  4. Coloured balls games → Raschig Tournamentset 4 Player
  5. Games with other accessories → Bouchon Pool
  6. Games with other accessories → Rummy
  7. Games with a KENO board → Keno_KenoBoard
  8. Games with a KENO board → Starboard_KenoBoard
  9. Games over multiple frames → Ten Hit Pool
  10. Games which use pins in a formation → 5 Pins Billiard (2-Ball version)
  11. Games which use pins in a formation → Canadian Skittles Pool
  12. Poker Ball games → Hard Knuckle Movie Game
  13. Poker Ball games → Pool Poker
  14. Poker Ball games → Schnapsen _ 66
  15. Re-Rack games → 9-6
  16. Rotation variants → 21-Ball Rotation
  17. Games for the Round Rack → Eights got no Date
  18. Games for the Round Rack → Round Ball
  19. Games for the Round Rack → Round Rack
  20. Russian pyramid → Classic Pyramid
  21. Snooker variants with racked balls → Functional Snooker
  22. Training games → Pot the Black

Games I found the names for, but sadly am still missing

Games from the book 'Over 300 Ways to Play Billiards''

  1. Apple
  2. Around the Clock
  3. Around the Horn
  4. Bank the 8 Ball
  5. Bank the Nine
  6. Baseball (Carom)
  7. Basic Pocket Billiards
  8. Beat the Breaker
  9. Bocce Billiards
  10. Bocce Pool
  11. Boccette (Bowls)
  12. California Pool
  13. Call Eight
  14. Call-Shot
  15. Caroms vs Pyramids
  16. Casin
  17. Centers only
  18. Check-Check
  19. Chess Billiards
  20. Chopsticks Pool
  21. Cocked Hat
  22. Continental
  23. Contra
  24. Coronation
  25. Crazy Eight
  26. Crazy Pool
  27. Cue Ball Pool
  28. Cushion Game
  29. Devil Among the Tailors
  30. Diamonds Covered
  31. Dirty Bonus
  32. Dirty Foul
  33. Dirty Q Ball
  34. Eight and Eight
  35. Eight to Hop
  36. Experts’ Game
  37. Football Billiards
  38. Four Corners
  39. Four Game, The
  40. Four Play
  41. Four Pockets
  42. French Billiards
  43. French Following Game
  44. Front to Back
  45. Gentleman’s Call
  46. Golf Side Games
  47. Haz-i-ards
  48. Indian Billiards
  49. Jack-Up Pool
  50. Kick Billiards
  51. Kicks
  52. Kiss-Cannons
  53. Last Two
  54. Le Président
  55. Liability
  56. Luck Rotation
  57. Mayhew
  58. Mug’s Pool
  59. Near Ball
  60. No Hands
  61. Off
  62. Old Army Game
  63. One and Safe
  64. One Shot (= 9-Ball One Shot Out???)
  65. One hole
  66. One-Player Rotation
  67. Open Table
  68. Penetration Nine-Ball
  69. Pick A Pocket
  70. Pick Pocket
  71. Pin Point Pool
  72. Plant Game
  73. Pocket Billiards, General Rules of WPA Rules
  74. Point System
  75. Pool Deck Quoits
  76. Progressive Billiards
  77. Rail Billiards
  78. Razzle-Dazzle
  79. Rotation Banks
  80. Rotation Contra Pool
  81. Rotation Eight-Ball
  82. Safe Eight
  83. Scottish Billiards
  84. Sentinel Pool
  85. Short Snooker
  86. Simple Carambole Game, The
  87. Soft Eight
  88. Spot at Fifty
  89. Spot the Break
  90. Streamlined Billiards
  91. Ten Ball Billiards
  92. Ten Pins
  93. Ten-Ball Rotation
  94. Thirty-One Pool
  95. Three Cues on the Table
  96. Thirty-One Ford
  97. Twenty-One Ball
  98. Whammy (= Congestion Pool???)
  99. Wild
  100. War Game, The
  101. Western Pool

Games found during AI search - highly probably just made up

  1. Scorpion (Forbidden Ball) → One ball is forbidden. Hitting it first ends your turn. Otherwise standard rotation applies.
  2. Sargo → Philippine rotation game emphasizing early combination shots.
  3. Mississippi Ten → Race to 10 points; short rotation.
  4. Call-Safe Pool → Safeties must be declared; undeclared safety = foul.
  5. Reverse Rotation → Highest-numbered ball first; sequence failure resets.
  6. King of the Hill → Pocket the “king ball” first while others block it.
  7. Ghost 8-Ball → One ball is invisible; hitting = foul; pocketing ignored.
  8. Progressive Sequence Pool → Each rack adds a ball to sequence.
  9. Pin Rotation → Knocking down central pin doubles the value of the next legally pocketed ball. Pin positions and values agreed per house.
  10. Bar Skittle Pool → Skittles placed near the table center; players must knock them down before pocketing balls to score.
  11. Royal Skittle Pool → Certain pins carry higher “royal” values. Knocking them in sequence or combination gives bonus points.
  12. Progressive Pin Reset → Pins reset after each inning; score depends on how many pins were knocked down.
  13. Chapó / Disc Target Folk → Small discs act as targets; balls must strike or land on them to score. Legal shots flexible, set by players.
  14. Dice Pool (Unofficial) → Dice rolled to determine which numbered ball must be struck or pocketed next. Missing the required ball incurs penalty.
  15. Lucky 7 Pool → Dice rolls assign multiplier to next legally pocketed ball. Multipliers affect points or stakes.
  16. Odd/Even Dice Pool → Dice dictate whether only odd or even numbered balls count in that inning.
  17. Craps Pool → Dice rolls determine shot type (bank, combo, kick, etc.) for the player. Scoring improvised per house rules.
  18. Sharkey’s Pool → A money‑game variant in the Philippines/Asia. (Philippines)
  19. Doublet (Early Carom) → Early two‑ball carom contest. (Historic)

Games I found, but might not be interesting at all

  1. Some kind of Golf-style game