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no 44, because you have to pot a colour after the final red (yellow - 2pts) and a clearance in snooker is defined as a single visit to the table where you clear everything.

it's pretty unlikely, you have to pot all 15 reds in one shot

Originally Posted by Gnan

no 44, because you have to pot a colour after the final red (yellow - 2pts) and a clearance in snooker is defined as a single visit to the table where you clear everything.

it's pretty unlikely, you have to pot all 15 reds in one shot

Ok if a clearance is a single visit how do you get 44?

Unless all the years of my dad watching it has been a different game but I thought the rules were pot red, pot colour until the final red and its colour are potted then it the yellow - black.

Actually, Ill check. As per wikipedia:

If a red ball is potted, the player currently in play stays at the table and continues with another stroke. This time one of the six colours is the ball "on".

As per http://www.billiardworld.com/snooker.html

6. After the striker has scored a red ball initially, his next legal object is a color, and as long as reds remain on the table he must alternate his play between reds and colors (though within each group he may play a ball of his choice). When reds remain on the table and a color is his object, the striker must (a) designate prior to stroking which color ball is his object (that specific color is then his "ball on"), and (b) cause the cue ball's first contact with a ball to be with that colored ball. If the striker fails to meet these requirements, it is a foul (See Penalties For Fouls).

Youre working that score out on potting reds in a row which is not how the game is played and is therefore not the lowest clearance score. Its red, colour, red, colour etc until the last red is potted. An appropriate colour then you start with the colours from yellow to black.

In which case 15 reds = 15 points, pot the minimum colour after them = 15 x 2 = 30 gives 45 points. Then pot yellow - black so add 27 = 72points is the minimum points for a clearance according to the rules. :P

I think it's worked out that one strike of the white would sink EVERY red on the table in that one strike...then you start sinking the colours...i think

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Originally Posted by Stormspiel

I think it's worked out that one strike of the white would sink EVERY red on the table in that one strike...then you start sinking the colours...i think

Ah I see, Im now truly enlightened. Though its not really possible.

the closest anyone has come is 9 reds in one shot.. so maybe with further tuning

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