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Pills - Billiard Term Definition

Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Pills as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary

Definition of Pills

Pills is a billiards term that is a part of Billiard Accessory Terminology.

The term pills in a cue sport context, refers to the set of peas, numbered 1 through 15 and sometimes 16.

The set of pills are placed in to a bottle and are used by various cue sport games to randomly determine some sort of rank order.

For example, in kelly pool, players draw pills to determine the ball assignment.

Pills definition in billiards

See: shake bottle, pea bottle, pill bottle, kelly bottle, tally bottle, bottle, pea, pill, peas, tally balls, shake balls for more on the meaning of "Pills".

Pills - Usage

Thanks to the luck of the pills, I beat you this time.

Billiards - Pills

  • Title: Pills
  • Author: (Billiards Forum)
  • Published: 12/28/2007 9:22:30 PM
  • Last Updated: 10/23/2016 3:05:48 PM
  • Last Updated By: billiardsforum

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