Fun Easy VR Pool Hall Game! Here's How to Play
2Tom's perspective video:
• Black Hole Pool - Zenaxa and Deucejui...
Here's a direct link to the custom scorecard Tom made for Bowlliards to use in Black Hole Pool. Thanks, Thomas!
https://bowling-scoreboard-29585.web.app/
And here is Tom's YouTube page. He's made a really creative short film showing his path to breaking onto the global leader boards for Black Hole Pool. I'm linking that short film here:
• The VR Hustler (Full Movie)
I used Quest 3, Quest Pro Touch Controllers, Internal Quest Recording was used for both my and Tom's recording incl. audio, edited within Quest 3 using InShot. Downloaded footage from Tom sent to my Quest via G. Drive opened in the Quest browser. (Tom and I agreed to exchange footage.)
Bowlliards is a variation on the 10 Ball Rack setup using bowling scoring. Each frame has 2 halves.
If you break and pocket every ball in succession without missing any, you score a STRIKE and your frame is closed.
If you break and get, for example, 3 balls pocketed before a miss or a scratch (any foul) and THEN go on to pocket the other 7 with no fouls, then you've scored a SPARE and your frame is closed.
If a foul occurs and the player has Ball in Hand, the cue ball is to be placed in the Kitchen and no object ball also in the kitchen can be directly struck. The cue ball must leave the Kitchen before striking any object ball or it is a foul. (The video illustrates the Kitchen area).
There are 10 frames to be played, though you can play fewer as we did for a faster game. Up to you!
To begin a frame:
A player breaks the rack and continues play until they miss pocketing a ball or they scratch.
At this time the player notes how many balls were potted (pocketed) to that point, including any that dropped on the break or on a scratch.
An easy way to determine this is to count how many balls remain on the felt, but don't count the cue ball. You started with 10 (plus the cue ball), if you still have 10 on the table, you made none in. If 8 are left on the table, you made 2 in. 2 is your score for your first half of this frame.
Now you play the second half of your frame. Same rules, play until you miss or foul, then add how many balls you potted to your scorecard for Frame 1. Using the previous example, first half of the frame you scored 2. In the second half you potted 3. Your total count for this frame is 5.
I highly recommend Tom's custom scorecard if you struggle to manually score bowling when strikes and spares are involved.
A Spare gets you +10 to the next frame's first half.
A Strike gets you +10 to each of the next two halves. So, if you got a Strike, then another Strike, you'd still need another Frame's first half to know how to score.
A strike, strike, 7 and 2 in frames 1, 2, and 3, 27 would be the score in Frame 1, 46 in frame 2, and 55 in frame 3.
(10+10+7)
(10+7+2)
(7+2)
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27+19+9 = 55
The video helps explain all of this in finer detail.
In Black Hole Pool, select 10 Ball as your game of choice. If not a solo game, have other player(s) Join Game. Determine order of play and the first person up selects Acquire Turn and 10 Ball and the game begins!
Good luck, have fun!
-Z