A Game for the Elliptical Pool Table - Numberphile
Video explaining the elliptical pool table: http://youtu.be/4KHCuXN2F3I More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ And some extra footage: http://youtu.be/pulp55gTKGE Alex Bellos'...
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You can only spend a certain of time practising getting the white in the pocket. So I thought I would design a game. And I have called the game Loop. 'Cause it's loop in stead of pool but different and also because it is a loop. What I realize when I was coming up with games is to play it with a small number of balls is much more fun than with a large number of balls. you have a black, which I'll put there. You have two colours like this. And you have the cue ball. It's a two-player game and the aim is you gotta get a colour in and then you got to get the black in starting if you're cueing off, you put the cue ball somewhere in the line between the black and here and you got to say which ball is the one you're going to go for. So...
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You can only spend a certain of time practising getting the white in the pocket. So I thought I would design a game. And I have called the game Loop. 'Cause it's loop in stead of pool but different and also because it is a loop. What I realize when I was coming up with games is to play it with a small number of balls is much more fun than with a large number of balls. you have a black, which I'll put there. You have two colours like this. And you have the cue ball. It's a two-player game and the aim is you gotta get a colour in and then you got to get the black in starting if you're cueing off, you put the cue ball somewhere in the line between the black and here and you got to say which ball is the one you're going to go for. So...
