8-Ball Pool Prototype

Phaser 3 + Matter.js. Drag around the cue ball to aim and set power.

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Last Play

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Current Rules More

Basic Play

You may place the cue ball behind the kitchen line on the opening break.
After that, you may only move the cue ball when you have ball in hand. In this build, ball in hand is anywhere on the table.
The table starts open. The first legally pocketed numbered ball lets that shooter choose solids or stripes.
Once groups are assigned, pocketed balls are credited to the correct player by group.
You keep shooting only if you pocket one of your own balls. On an open table, any solid or stripe keeps your turn.
Pocketing only your opponent's ball does not keep your turn.

Fouls

Scratch: if the cue ball is pocketed, it is a foul.
Once groups are assigned, you must hit your own group first.
You may not hit the 8-ball first until your whole group is cleared.
If the cue ball hits nothing, it is a foul.
If no ball is pocketed, at least one ball must reach a rail after contact; otherwise it is a foul.
On any foul, the other player gets ball in hand.

8-Ball

If the 8-ball is pocketed on the break, it is spotted back onto the table.
After you clear your group, you must call the 8-ball pocket by clicking a hole.
You cannot pocket the 8-ball in the same shot as your last group ball. If you do, you lose.
If you pocket the 8-ball without a called pocket, you lose.
If you pocket the 8-ball in the wrong pocket, you lose.
If you pocket the called 8-ball cleanly, you win.

APA-Style Notes In This Build

Slop counts on regular balls. You do not call normal shots or normal pockets.
If you are shooting the 8-ball and scratch, it is an automatic loss.
If you are on the 8-ball and miss it entirely without scratching, it is only a foul and the other player gets ball in hand.
The top bar shows Last Play, and the side panes show each player's pocketed balls and current group.