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Sinuca Brasileira
(Brazilian Snooker)
© Mike Stooke 2005.   Historical Notes
Cue


This is a short, fast version of snooker using the six colours and one red. Little known
outside Brazil it only came to my attention after Bob Sodroski emailed to ask if I knew
of the game.  Searching through google gave no useful links in English, but one badly
translated page gave enough information to prepare this set of rules.

The table set to begin the Brazilian game of Sinuca

The Rules of Sinuca


1

The normal rules apply to this game except where clearly contradicted below.

2

To begin the game set the table as shown in the dagram. The colours on their
normal spots and the red halfway between the pink and the right-hand side cushion.

3

The red and colours have the same values as they do in snooker.

4

All fouls carry a penalty of seven points.

5

If the player who pots the red then pots a colour, he may choose to
either play the yellow in the normal sequence, or attempt any of the
other colours as a "penalty" ball which must be nominated.

If the "penalty" ball is not potted, it is a foul, and seven points are
awarded to the opponent.

If the "penalty" ball is potted, its normal value is scored, and the
yellow becomes the next ball "on".

6

The player who pots the yellow, may then choose to either play the
green in the normal sequence, or attempt any of the other four balls
as a "penalty" ball which must be nominated.

If the "penalty" ball is not potted, it is a foul, and seven points are
awarded to the opponent.

If the "penalty" ball is potted, its normal value is scored, and the green
becomes the next ball "on".

7

The player who pots the green, may then choose to either play the
brown in the normal sequence, or attempt any of the other three balls
as a "penalty" ball which must be nominated.

If the "penalty" ball is not potted, it is a foul, and seven points are
awarded to the opponent.

If the "penalty" ball is potted, its normal value is scored, and the brown
becomes the next ball "on".

8

The player who pots the brown, may then choose to either play the
blue in the normal sequence, or attempt any of the other two balls
as a "penalty" ball which must be nominated.

If the "penalty" ball is not potted, it is a foul, and seven points are
awarded to the opponent.

If the "penalty" ball is potted, its normal value is scored, and the blue
becomes the next ball "on".

9

The player who pots the blue, may then choose to either play the
pink in the normal sequence, or attempt the black as a "penalty"
ball which must be nominated.

If the black as the "penalty" ball is not potted, it is a foul, and seven
points are awarded to the opponent.

If the "penalty" ball is potted, its normal value is scored, and the pink
becomes the next ball "on".

10

The player who pots the pink must then play the black in the normal sequence.
The black cannot be played as a "penalty" ball at this stage of the game.

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Historical Notes

This "penalty" ball seems to be unique in snooker but being allowed to take another
colour after potting a colour does have a precedent within the history of the game.


 
(From "How to Play and Win at Snooker" by W.G. Clifford, published 1938.)
 
"Real Snooker," to my personal regret, lacks official recognition.
To my knowledge it is the original game of snooker as played
years before the official rules were framed and published. That
is why I venture to call it "Real Snooker." It is played exactly as
ordinary snooker in every respect until all the reds are pocketed.

Then comes the difference, in my opinion a big one. After potting
yellow, in "real snooker" you are "on any colour" exactly as you were
after taking a red. After taking that "free colour" you are "on" green.
Should you pocket green you are "on any colour" once more, then
brown, "any colour," blue, "any colour," pink and black. This carries
the game to its logical conclusion; it is obviously a defect to allow
you to take "any colour" after a red and stop you from so doing after
pocketing a coloured ball when there are no reds to play at.

However, ordinary snooker has the sanction of usage, it is a very
popular game as it stands and I am not crusading for "Real Snooker"
in place of it. But I happen to know that this game is much liked by
the few who have tried it, so have ventured to mention it if but for
the sake of variety.


 

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