Pull back, line up the shot, and sink the numbers, bank shots and combos pile on the score.
Strike the cue ball with a pull-back aim, judging both angle and power, and pot the numbered balls into the pockets. A predictive guide line helps you set the shot. Sinking balls scores, and rewards stack: bank shots off the cushions, combos that pot more than one ball, and clearing the rack under par all multiply your total.
Pool — angles, english, and the bank shot — rendered as an arcade scoring game rather than a simulation of a table.
The original layer is what the table rewards. Sinking numbers in order and chaining combos scores, so a shot is judged by what it sets up as much as by whether it drops.
That shifts the emphasis from potting to position play, which is the part of real pool that beginners never notice. A clean pot that leaves you nothing is worth less here than an awkward one that leaves the next three on.
Sidepocket is an original physics billiards score-attack with deterministic, fair tables. Free to play in your browser, made in-house at PlayPendium.