Glossary of Cue Sports Terms - Y

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yellow ball

Also yellow(s).

1. In snooker, the lowest-value colour ball, being worth two points. It is one of the baulk colours. In some (especially American) snooker ball sets it is numbered "2" on its surface. It is placed on the yellow spot.

2. In blackball, one of two groups of seven object balls that must be potted before the eight ball; compare stripes; contrast red ball.

yellow spot

The spot (usually not specially marked because it is obvious) on a snooker table at which the yellow ball is placed. Regardless of table size, it is the intersection of the "D" and the balk line on the breaker's right side. The left-to-right order of the green, brown and yellow balls is the subject of the mnemonic phrase "God bless you".

yellow pocket

In snooker, the corner pocket that is closest to the yellow spot.