These are not pictures of my table, but of others the firm has done. I am hoping mine is the same colour as these, it might be a bit darker. Also I will have hexagonal legs not the round ones shown here.
Views from above the table (left) and from the front (centre) - I got
the version that does not include a dog.
The table is 3x6 feet, one piece of slate.
You always shoot from the front end of the table, there is no walking around.
As you can see there are lots of white balls and one red ball.
As in normal billiards, you get points for sinking either colour of ball
and for sinking your cue ball "in off" another ball.
The red and black mushrooms (skittles in my case)
stand near the high-scoring holes
to make it harder to score in those holes (knocking down a skittle
is *very* bad news).
( click
here to see all the rules)
When you sink a ball it is returned to you at the front of the table.
The ball return slots are shown in the picture on the right.
After a certain amount of time (15 minutes for my table) the balls no
longer return and the game finishes when there are no more balls available
(actually I have found the official "last ball" rules unsatisfactory so
my house rule is that a game ends when there are fewer than 2 balls on
the table).
