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Thousand Ball Pool
Game starts with pool table packed with balls except for one open space. | |
You'd put your cue ball in that space and start the game. Might take quite a while to get the first ball in because they're so tightly packed together, but eventually as the balls thinned out, the strategy would change.
Could also fill only about half the pool table area with balls using a big ass
grid shaped pool rack. That might be better than just a bunch of balls that would barely move for the first half hour or so.
Hey, I made a good guess! Turns out a pool table can hold 968 balls. So 500 with a massive rack thingy would be the way to do it. Could also fill the 100 space rack with as many as you wanted. 250, 100, 50 etc. There'd be outlines showing where to put the different numbers of balls. Blue outline for 250, yellow for 125 etc.
Could also scale it down and just have a 50 ball max rack with the lines for 40, 30, 20 and whatever the normal amoung of balls is indicated by a specific color triangle.
Or just have a triangle that you can adjust with the settings written on the side. Have it move like a slide rule with a pivot thingy on one corner.
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Contrariwise, the table could be adjustable in size so one could make golf-sized shots. |
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To make the game go a little faster, could we make it a legal move to just tilt the table (with a view to trickling a few balls into two or three pockets)? |
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Of course you would need extraordinarily deep pockets, but that's true of a lot of HB ideas. |
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Maybe just ramps going to a big bin under table. On wheels because I'm guessing it'd be pretty heavy. |
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You know, this wouldn't necessarily need any modification other than having 1,000 balls. Could probably get some hits on Youtube if you posted a sped up video. Guessing it'd take 3 or 4 hours. |
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The edges of the table could contract as the game progressed to main maximum ball density. Perhaps on a clockwork timer. |
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Huh. I'm actually wanting to play around with this now. You could do a test of that basic concept with some 2 x 4s that you move as you play. |
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And the 2 x 4s could be about hand sized and tiled like dominos - there could be a separate scoring system in play there also. |
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"No space" doesn't give much opportunity for starting (initial hit will be an almost vertical "poke").
A clear circle (4 or 5 balls in diameter?) in the middle (or somewhere else) of the otherwise-tightly-packed balls, into which the cueball is placed, might be better. |
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