A table game, includes a game surface having a plurality of holes therein, a plurality of balls for contacting the game surface and being of a diameter allowing each ball of the plurality of balls to be passed or thrown into each hole of the plurality of holes of the game surface, along with a manner for players to thrown balls onto the game surface and scoring players, preferably depending upon the location of the ball thrown onto the game surface.

The wedge for billiard gutter track is a mechanical structure. The wedge for billiard gutter track is configured for use with a billiard table. The billiard table further includes a plurality of pocket structures and a ball return. The wedge for billiard gutter track braces the ball return against damage from the variable loads generated by any ball selected from the plurality of balls as the selected ball rolls into the ball return.

An embodiment of an improved design of a billiard table set with a dining table conversion-top, containing a billiard table with movably attached dining top segments, designed to eliminate inconvenient removal and storage of removable tabletop segments. The billiard dining table set furthermore contains benches featuring a custom height adopted to enable comfortable seating and foldable legs that enable storage of the benches under the dining table. Other embodiments are described and illustrated.

A method of playing billiards is provided. The method includes positioning numbered billiard balls in a predetermined pattern on a billiards table and placing a cue ball at any desired location on the billiards table. The cue ball strikes the numbered billiard balls in sequential numerical order. A score determined from the numbered billiard balls sunk in billiards table pockets is then recorded.

An embodiment of an improved design of a billiard table set with a dining table conversion-top, containing a billiard table with movably attached dining top segments, designed to eliminate inconvenient removal and storage of removable tabletop segments. The billiard dining table set furthermore contains benches featuring a custom height adopted to enable comfortable seating and foldable legs that enable storage of the benches under the dining table. Other embodiments are described and illustrated.

A table game, includes a game surface having a plurality of holes therein, a plurality of balls for contacting the game surface and being of a diameter allowing each ball of the plurality of balls to be passed or thrown into each hole of the plurality of holes of the game surface, along with a manner for players to thrown balls onto the game surface and scoring players, preferably depending upon the location of the ball thrown onto the game surface.

A device for setting up a game with a ball, the device being reversibly dismountable so that it can be assembled and/or played with anywhere on an existing plate surface. The device includes at least one ball clamping unit with a first side wall, a second side wall, and a ball admission opening which is arranged between the first side wall and the second side wall. The ball is clamped in the at least one ball clamping unit so that the ball remains on the existing plate surface when the ball enters the ball admission opening. The at least one ball clamping unit is detachably fastened to the existing plate surface in an assembled state.

A pool table has a removable dining surface and a gravity-based ball-return system located transversely between end legs of the pool table. Balls that have been pocketed during a game on the table's playing bed are commonly collected in one of inclined two gullies that connect together multiple pockets. The gullies are peripheral to the table and directly beneath pockets that are, preferably, either side of a central longitudinal axis of the table. The ball return system includes a stacked arrangement of runners that receive a pocketed ball from a cascading drop at the end of each gully. Once into the stack, a ball separation device identifies and selectively separates a cue ball from object balls, with the cue ball directed downwards towards a free-return box while object balls are directed along a different downward path. Object balls are then retained behind a ball retainer and release mechanism which, when in a release position, causes delivery of all object balls to a ball picking slot at an end of the pool table common with the free-return box. Pool table depth is therefore minimized while space under the table's bed is maximized to accommodate seating.

A pool table has a removable dining surface and a gravity-based ball-return system located transversely between end legs of the pool table. Balls that have been pocketed during a game on the table's playing bed are commonly collected in one of inclined two gullies that connect together multiple pockets. The gullies are peripheral to the table and directly beneath pockets that are, preferably, either side of a central longitudinal axis of the table. The ball return system includes a stacked arrangement of runners that receive a pocketed ball from a cascading drop at the end of each gully. Once into the stack, a ball separation device identifies and selectively separates a cue ball from object balls, with the cue ball directed downwards towards a free-return box while object balls are directed along a different downward path. Object balls are then retained behind a ball retainer and release mechanism which, when in a release position, causes delivery of all object balls to a ball picking slot at an end of the pool table common with the free-return box. Pool table depth is therefore minimized while space under the table's bed is maximized to accommodate seating.

A game played on a billiards/pool/snooker table is provided that includes at least one robot assigned to temporally to one of two or more players, or two or more robots, each assigned uniquely to each of the two or more players. A remote controller is in electrical or wireless communication with the at least one robot or the two or more robots, each of the individually two or more remote controllers assigned to the two or more players for control of the two or more robots. Two or more color-coded or numbered balls are provided to be engaged by the robots.