| the history of snooker |
| Billiards and Snooker are similar games but Billiards was invented first. A king of France had a billiard table over 500 years ago and the game was played on grass as well. |
| the modern game Snooker was started in 1875 in India. To start with there were 15 reds and 1 black and then they used yellow, green and pink. Later on brown and blue used as well. |
| John Roberts Billiards champion went to India in 1885 and found people playing snooker so he brought it back to England. |
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