Billiards is a game played on a table with low rubber boundary around the edges, small balls, and a "cue", a stick that is used to push the white ball into other balls. Billiards is also used to refer to the entire family of billiard-like games including pool games, once called pocket billiards, and snooker. Caroms and carom billiards are, today, synonyms for billiards that help distinguish them from the other billiard-like games. ...