Potting the brown ball in snooker earns you 4 points.
There are no points for pocketing a particular color ball in billiards. However, snooker awards 1 point for potting (the term used for pocketing by snooker players) a red ball.
Snooker: 6 Points for Potting Pink
In snooker, after potting all the reds on the table, you are required to pot Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink and finally Black in the mentioned sequence.
A minimum break would be 1. A 1 break has often been made. No one would have ever done a 15 yellow break in competition, which would be a 72 break.
147 is the highest break in snooker where fouls are not a factor.
In snooker, the maximum score for a single frame is 147 points. This can be achieved by potting all 15 reds with a black ball (worth 7 points each), followed by potting the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black balls in sequence. Each red scored with a black provides the highest possible points, making 15 reds at 8 points each (15x8=120), plus the 27 points from the colored balls (2+3+4+5+6+7=27), totaling 147.
Pool and billiards are similar to snooker as they are all cue sports played on a rectangular table with pockets. They involve using a cue stick to strike colored balls into pockets, with the objective being to score points by potting balls.
If you have a free ball situation, you pot any ball, then a colour, from there if you clear the table as in red black red black etc, then all the colours, you would have a break of 155. The biggest break possible.
The highest snooker break made by a woman is 147, achieved by Reanne Evans in 2016 during a match at the World Women's Snooker Championship. This remarkable break matches the highest possible score in snooker, demonstrating her exceptional skill in the sport. Evans is a prominent figure in women's snooker, having won multiple world titles.
It basically means is it possible? If a ball is pottable, the ball is on.
At break off it is forward out of the D. After that any direction is possible.