Billiards, also known as cue sports or pool, is a variety of games of skill played on a clothed table bounded by cushions using cue sticks to strike balls to move around to achieve a specific goal. Different countries suggest different ways to play the game. Most often, the white ball is struck to hit other colored and numbered balls to shoot in the pockets of the table. Billiards has a rich history dating back the 15th century and through out the years, people had come up with different ways to play the game, even using obstacles or targets on the table or shooting the billiard balls from one table to another.