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This is a list of cue sports game articles that needs to be created, at least as well-source stubs.

Priority should be determined by a combination of popularity of the game, its historical importance, sourceability, and how much it is redlinked in extant articles.

• Hand billiards (carom version of finger pool, and they might be best as same article unless there is evidence of organized competition in both disciplines; redlink from Cue sport; Napoleon was a notable player, as sourced in Stein & Rubino; redir should exist at Finger billiards; mention Boccette in "See also")

• Artistic pool (exists as section at Trick shot, but does not really belong there, as it consists of more than trick shots; see Talk:Trick shot for citable references that provide a lot of detail; presently a redir to Trick shot)
• Chinese pool a.k.a. Chinese eight-ball pool, not to be confused with Chinese eight-ball (Chinese 8-ball, etc.) – new-ish variant of eight-ball, using snooker-style rails and pockets; sanctioned by the WPA, and open to international competition; redlink from Darren Appleton, List of world eight-ball champions, etc.
• Coyote (pool) (a Mexican variant of Chicago)
• Equal offense (redlink from Cue sport; covered in BCA rules; here's an additional rules source
• Finger pool (pocket version of hand billiards; redlink from Cue sport; redir should exist at Hand pool)
• Forty-one (pool) (covered in BCA rules)
• Line-up (pool) (covered in BCA rules and Shamos 1999)
• Mata-mata pool ("kill-kill") (apparently native to either Brazil or Portugal; uses 5 4, according to Portuguese article as of Oct. 2010 each red and blue balls (solids and stripes would work just as well, of course); goal is to sink all balls of different-colored opponent, usu. played on 7 ft tables; little else is said at pt:Mata-mata (jogo); sounds like a short ver. of eight-ball, but weird phrasing (sink opponents' balls) hints at defensive moves as in cutthroat - maybe player can hit own ball in defense or opponents' in offense?)
• Mr. and mrs. (pool) (covered in BCA rules; User:SMcCandlish swears he's seen another less sexist name for this, but can't remember what or where; make redirects at Mr. and Mrs., Mr. & Mrs. (convert to a DAB page), Mr. and Ms. (convert to DAB page), Mister and missus, etc.)
• Poker pocket billiards (covered in BCA rules; requested at Talk:Cue sport; there are also less notable variants that User:SMcCandlish can document)
• Target pool (redlink at Kim Davenport)
• Thirty-ball (redlink at WP:CUEGLOSS#Way)

• Devil's pool (billiards) (redlink at Devil's pool (disambiguation); User:SMcCandlish has found a .au source via eBay, but another is probably needed; Australian/New Zealand pin billiards, in which the "pins" are flat obelisks like miniatures of the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A not very authoritative set of rules can be found here, and at least two 1970s Aus. rulebooks also provided rules, but are extremely difficult to find, the Southern Billiards Rules and the Charlton Rule Book (presumably published by Eddie Charlton's billiards equipment company). One variant known to use 3 balls, probably but not certainly carom-size, and probably but not certainly on a pocketless table, is known as victory billiards or victory pool. A made-up variant using poker pocket billiards balls was featured in the weird .au sci-fi movie Hard Knuckle.)
• Several noteworthy games aside from bar billiards and bagatelle; Stein & Rubino go into a few of them briefly, but Shamos covers many of them in detail, incl. with pre-1900 pics that can be legally scanned as public domain)

• Mouth pool (probably next-to-lowest priority; was detailed by Shamos in one of his Billiards Digest articles ca. 2002-4, not sure, possibly earlier, in the mid-'90s)

Lowest priority.

• Bocce billiards (recent invention, as least as to available sources; small balls, 4 per player/team (red vs. green), under 2", and very small yellow jack or pallino ("bullet") or "jack" (target ball), about 1"; can be played with hands or with cues; pretty much same rules as bocce; see also Boccette for a bocce pool variant with a longer history; preserves the size ratio between the bowling balls and the jack much more closely than boccette)
• Billiard golf (recent invention, not to be confused with Golf (pool); adopts scoring system of golf, with at least three variant sets of rules, and uses a dry-erase chart to keep track of the score; one version uses different racking patterns, each with a "par" value; another, also here, Canadian-made, does the same thing but with different patterns; a third is radically different, with a unique set of rules)
• Blazz (recent, patented invention; patent; also mentioned by Shamos, presumably in his Enc., though possibly in Pool, or both)
• Hexapool (recent invention; was AfD'd, I think on WP:COI grounds because inventor created article, or on WP:N grounds because lacked multiple sources)
• Poker pool (there are several things called by this and similar names; one, poker pocket billiards (maybe this one is notable enough to include) in the BCA rulebook and sometimes called pocker [a disambig page], is a set of 16 object balls with "A", "K", "Q", "J" as well as numbers, all solids) made by Saluc/Aramith (featured in the movie Hard Knuckle, and Mueller makes a giant diamond rack for them); one dates to the era of clay balls, unknown in number, User:SMcCandlish has seen incomplete set, and rules if there ever were any published are unknown, manufacturer unknown, but may well be same game as poker pocket billiards; one is a commercial recent product (15 really funky, colorful custom balls, with kings and queens and stuff on them) with various rules included; and one is just a set of 60 cards, played with regular pool balls, and the same games can basically be played with regular cards, but the results would be slightly skewed because there would only be 52 instead of 60 cards, unless using a hearts deck)
• Progressive billiards[1] (presumptively non-notable practice drill masquerading as a new "game" - score carom with no cushions, then 1 cushion, then 2, then 3, restart; was added to and removed from the Carom billiards article; few G'hits, no reliable sources; is there a regressive billiards? a conservative billiards?)
• ScratchBall or ScratchBall Billiards (another recently-invented, trademarked game; created in Europe and uses either British or U.S./intl. size balls, not sure which; only known supplier is Saluc/Aramith, and this is not an indication of notability - they'll make any balls they're contracted to make; uses 1 white cue ball, a red "dead ball", and 14 black "counter balls"; created as a supposed means of incorporating trick shot skills into a full-rack game, but it really doesn't make use of trick shots much, but rather of caroms and throws, as the object is to make points by pocketing the cue ball off an object ball and extra points by also pocketing that object ball as long as the cue ball is also pocketed; summary & pics; basically just a simplified version of Russian pyramid, though probably inspired by the winning hazards of English billiards; the official site of the supposed "ScratchBall/Stymie Billiards Association", apparent trademark holder; keep an eye out for ScratchBall billiards, ScratchBall Pool, ScratchBall pool, Scratchball, Scratchball Billiards, Scratchball billiards, Scratchball Pool, Scratchball pool, Scratch-ball, Scratch-ball Billiards, Scratch-ball billiards, Scratch-ball Pool, Scratch-ball pool, Scratch-Ball, Scratch-Ball Billiards, Scratch-Ball billiards, Scratch-Ball Pool, Scratch-Ball pool, Scratch Ball, Scratch Ball Billiards, Scratch Ball billiards, Scratch Ball Pool, Scratch Ball pool; has a rules variant called "Stymie" or "BlockBall" - keep an eye out for variant names like Stymie Biliards, Stymie billiards, Stymie Pool, Stymie pool, StymieBall, Stymie-ball, Stymie Ball, Block-ball, Block-Ball, Block Ball, Block-ball Billiards, Block-Ball Billiards, Block Ball Billiards, BlockBall billiards, Block-ball billiards, Block-Ball billiards, Block Ball billiards, BlockBall Pool, Block-ball Pool, Block-Ball Pool, Block Ball Pool, BlockBall pool, Block-ball pool, Block-Ball pool, Block Ball pool; a third option is to use the ball set for trick shots, and the "Association" has published some trick shots that are adapted from the APTSA and Dr. Cue programs, but with a cue ball scratch integrated, and Florian "Venom" Kohler has put some on video: http://www.scratchballbilliards.com/gallery.html; no evidence anyone is taking this seriously as of April 2011, and there's no need for a special ball set to do any of this)
• Six-pocket (until recently, no GHits for anything other than use as a synonym of "pocket billiards" as a class; ca. 2010 it started appearing (mainly because of promotion on Facebook) as a new game under the name 6 Pocket or 6 Pocket Billiards, a trademark (but look out also for 6 pocket or 6 pocket billiards); it is a wholly-owned league system, and an undeployed system for a pro tour, in which players play individually against the field, not as part of a team and not against any particular opponent; it is a very simplified version of straight pool, limited to one rack and one inning, with no safety play, since there's only one player, just trying to run a rack; i.e., it is a recently made-up bangers' game. There are a total of 6+ connected business entities having to do with this game, and a whole lot of obsessive-compulsive output (numbered documents, meticulous logos, etc.), but no evidence that anyone is actually playing the game except possibly in small numbers in one location in Colorado; entities include Denver 6 Pocket Leagues (sic - there's only one), 6 Pocket Tour, 6 Pocket Players Association, 6 Pocket, Inc.[2], 6 Pocket League[3], Professional 6 Pocket Association, Amateur 6 Pocket Association and 6 Pocket Ltd. which is probably just another name of 6 Pocket, Inc.; most of these appear to exist on paper and as skeleton websites at best, only; not to be confused with pool halls by names such as 6 Pocket, Six Pocket, 6-pocket, Sixpocket, 6Pocket, etc., e.g. the one in Mayhew, CA; keep an eye out for 6-pocket billiards, Six-pocket billiards, 6-pocket pool, Six-pocket pool, 6 Pocket pool, 6 Pocket billiards, 6 Pocket Pilliards, etc.)
• Starball (recent inventions; 1st is a real set of 7 balls and tokens and stuff, with a novel ruleset, for regular table; 2nd is a patent, with star-shaped rack; 3rd is subject of two patents, for a hex-shaped table, and does not appear to exist in the real world except as patent-filer prototypes, but may be related to or same as Zone-ball and/or Hexapool)
• Ten-pin pool (included in pool-simulator video game Pool Shark 2; nature unknown - might use pins like the old Italian pocket variant of Five-pin billiards did, or might be some kind of ten-pin bowling rules adaptation, a la Golf (pool) and Baseball pocket billiards; or a variant of Danish pin billiards, or of a pin/skittle-using bar billiards or bagatelle game??)
• Two-ball billiards are carom games played with only two cue balls. Shamos provides rules for three variants. First variant (kiss-cannons or plon-pon) is to use your cue ball to hit your opponent's ball twice. Second variant is to hit at least two cushions before hitting the other ball. Third variant is the same as the previous one but with three cushions. A fourth variant is known as uniard (pronounced as "yuniard"), a more difficult version of three-cushions and a culmination of the previous games. One point is scored when a player hits the other player's ball, hits the cushions at least thrice, then contact the other ball again. No known written sources, it's been around since at least the mid-1960s.
• Zone-ball (recent invention; was externally linked-to from Cue sports, removed as spam)

Not wanted! WP:NFT junk that was deleted or simply shouldn't appear here, so no need to (re-)create articles about them.

• 4D Billiards patented pool table with moving central turntable apparatus (recent invention, still vaporware as far as actual products go, no media coverage worth mentioning; update: still no actual products as of July 2011)
• Beer-in-hand (just random kids' term for jacked-up pool; plenty of GHits, but it isn't actually a game, just a fratboy style of playing any pool game; basically a dicdef)
• Bjureez (non-notable local UK hand-pool drinking game made up on a blog; no GHits other than a couple of blogs)
• CalvinPool (some random kids' pool game; no notable GHits other than its defunct GeoCities page or things that frame or refer to it)
• Contie (made-up-one-day variant of snooker; same game except that the colour ball to shoot after a red is chosen by random drawing instead of player choice; was deleted at AfD, but not before a book actually quoted WP-provided "information" from this vanity article; AfD'd again but should've been speedily deleted as a recreation of previously deleted material)
• Eleven-ball (WP:NFT crap)
• Face-off (pool) (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP GHits)
• Fargo (pool) a.k.a. Fargo practice game (more made up stuff; didn't even have a draft article, was just added as a redlink to Cue sports
• Finball (Scottish college kids' nonsense; AfD'd unanimously)
• Firehouse 19 (some random firefighters'[??] WP:NFT game)
• Flanges (some random kids' hand pool variant; no non-WP GHits)
• Goof ball (some friends-and-family game from Philly; no non-WP GHits, other than its own years-dead website)
• Impulse killer a.k.a. The Hound (another made-up-one-day goof-off pastime for kids, in which the goal is to never let the cueball stop moving, i.e. any shot taken will be inaccurate random smacking of balls around)
• Indians don't share lunches (some random kids' pool game; no GHits at all)
• Lolzacat (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP GHits)
• Mexican pool (evidently a hoax article; speedied; certainly did not reflect actual pool as played in Mexico, though Cue sports in Mexico is a viable subject)
• My pocket (more WP:NFT crap)
• Pairs (billiard game) (apparently a madeup thing that was speedied)
• PNG cutthroat
• Pool300 (WP:NFT crap, made up by someone at OB Cues)
• Pool bocce a.k.a. English pool bocce (some random kids' hand pool game; no relevant non-WP GHits; not to be confused with bocce billiards, above, and boccette, though conceptually similar; Pool bocce and Bocce pool should redirect to the eventual Bocce billiards article)
• Puckpool (game) (Australian coin-op commercial variant of carrom; utterly non-notable as its own entry, already mentioned at carrom in an appropriate way, but keeps being added as wikispam to the ExtLinks section there, to be frequently reverted under WP:SPAM and WP:EL)
• ScratchBall Billiards (more AfD'd WP:NFT crap; it is just an ugly variant of Chinese billliards)
• Seven-card ball (more apparent WP:NFT stuff, added to Cue sports list by someone, but reverted since not in Shamos 1999, BCA rules or other major works)
• Showcase pool (made-up game, deleted per WP:PROD and WP:GNG, as Showcase Pool)
• 3-5-8 bank pool (some made-up game added to Cue sports list by someone as a redlink)
• Two-ball (pool) a.k.a. 2-ball shootout (some made-up game added to Cue sports list by someone as a redlink)
• Spool (a WP:NFT eight-ball/speed pool drinking game; was inserted into Speed pool)