Just a query

[chrisfinch]

If you are on the final blue, with just that,pink, and black left. If you foul the blue and hit the black first, does your opponent get 5 or 7 points? I think 7, with the same idea as with reds earlier. My mate thinks 5 though. Who is right?

[JanieWatkins]

If you are on the final blue, with just that,pink, and black left. If you foul the blue and hit the black first, does your opponent get 5 or 7 points? I think 7, with the same idea as with reds earlier. My mate thinks 5 though. Who is right?

It's seven points..
if you were on blue and went in off, that's five points
if you fouled and hit pink, that six
foul and hit black that's seven

you can tell your mate he was wrong...

and catch him out next time on pink and black cos that's the only time you can roll up behind a free ball.. so say he fouls on the pink and it's a free ball, you can roll up behind the black... and cause a huge row down the club!

[peoples champ]

depends whether the opponent invokes the 1987 ruling that gives 6 points and ball in hand!

[JanieWatkins]

depends whether the opponent invokes the 1987 ruling that gives 6 points and ball in hand!

what 1987 ruling?

the rules were updated and reprinted in 1995...