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posted by: homerlee	Posted - 11/19/2008 at 10:14:05 AM
Forum Lurker	I'm looking for the plans to build an Amos & Andy Board. Can anyone help me out with this? I can't find any oinformation on the internet at all. Thanks
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reply #1 by: quickshot	Posted - 11/19/2008 at 10:45:27 AM
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reply #2 by: homerlee	Posted - 11/19/2008 at 10:47:32 AM
Forum Lurker	It's a game board with 44 holes in it that goes on one end of your pool table. Each hole has a number value.
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reply #3 by: billiardsforum	Posted - 12/11/2008 at 7:50:47 PM
Owner and Administrator	Another mention found. Apparently there was a set made by the Saunier Wihem Billiard Comapany - which is no longer in existance. quote: "AMOS & ANDY CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK" BILLIARD GAME/KEENO BOARD. 20x46.5in wood board with forty-six 1.5in dia. holes. Saunier-Wilhem Co. c. early 1930s. 1.25in... (H/I) and quote: Lot 2124 : "AMOS & ANDY CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK" BILLIARD GAME/KEENO BOARD. 20x46.5in wood board with forty-six 1.5in dia. holes. Saunier-Wilhem Co. c. early There are also some other images I found while searching....
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reply #4 by: billiardsforum	Posted - 12/11/2008 at 8:12:21 PM
Owner and Administrator	I found an entry in the the "New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards" that mentions Amos & Andy in relation to billiards: quote: This is the actual text in the blurb: "Billiard Board Game - A game played on a billiard table on which a thin board with holes has been positioned against an end rail to serve as a target. The player must bank or carom a ball into a hole on the board, thereby scoring an indicated number of poiints. These games were popular by 1916 (which probably means they were played for 10-15 years before that {billiards forum comment}) and such boards are still sold. {proof of that still needed.} They include "Amos and Andy", Barnyard Golf, Black Jack, Hatta Boy, Keno {sometimes spelled kenno}, Mac's Solitare, Pigeon Pool, Roulo, Rummy, Scotch Pool, Star, and Turf." IF ANYONE HAS ANY PRINTED, OR VERIFIABLE RULES, PLEASE CONTACT BILLIARDS FORUM. We'll Pay up to $50 for a complete verifiable set, and lower for any range in between.
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reply #5 by: billiardsforum	Posted - 12/11/2008 at 8:23:57 PM
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reply #6 by: billiardsforum	Posted - 12/11/2008 at 8:41:11 PM
Owner and Administrator	I guess I'm on a wild goose chase tonight. Here is a cool internet post titled "#4 of the 500 coolest things in the world" quote: Old-time Pool Halls and Coke bottle bets I don't know about where you grew up. But in a couple of small South Alabama towns, the pool hall on Saturday morning was on the top ten list of fun things we could do. Yes, it might have been just a tiny bit on the bad boy side, but in Ozark and Monroeville, the two towns where I grew up, the one pool hall was exotic to a boy of 16 or 17. Mysterious. Alluring. Irresistible. Most of the patrons were good old boys, in the best sense, usually from the wrong side of town--meaning perhaps they had even less material prosperity than those of us from modest (though not poor) means. I learned to cuss more easily there, and where to buy a beer if you were under age. We learned all the betting games, from nine-ball to snooker, six-ball and straight pool. We learned about the Amos and Andy board, a sloping board that covered about a third of a standard pool table, and had holes with numbers beside them. The goal was to draw a "pill" (dice with only one number) from a plastic bottle, then shoot a ball into a hole so that the ball number and hole number combined matched your pill. Hit the eight ball into the seven hole if you held a 15 pill and you won the bet, usually a dollar for each of the four or five players. But my favorite small-time bet was when we all wanted a Coke. Yes always a Coke. Not Pepsi, which was a Yankee drink back then (then?). So anyway, next to the drink box was a United States map, with a string pinned to the town location. We'd each pull a Coke bottle and look on the bottom for the city where it was originally bottled. Then measure the distance from where we were. Panama City might be only a hundred miles, but St. Louis was five times that--or something like that. I can't even remember all the cities where Cokes were bottled, but it was a fine bet to see whose bottle traveled the greatest distance. Even today, when I run across a short Coke, I am instantly transmitted back in time to a smoky pool hall in Monroeville, to the clack clack of pool balls, laughter at Smitty's joke we'd all heard before, to the high seats looming over the pool tables. To Jeff amazing us with his runs of 20 or thirty balls without a miss in straight pool. To the incomparable taste of that icy Coke when stuffing four dollars into a jeans pocket because my bottle travelled all the way from California. Posted by Philip Shirley
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reply #7 by: homerlee	Posted - 12/11/2008 at 10:14:43 PM
Forum Lurker	Gary, I have a set of the offical rules for Amos and Andy that I would be happy to fax you. I got them from Steepleton's. It appears that what I have was the original sheet that came with the boards. I have made my own board to play with since they are no longer available. I found an old one in the local pool hall and used it for measurements. I did have a guy at another local pool hall price me 300.00 to build one for me. After I built my own I know now why he was asking that much. I'll post a picture of it as soon as I get a chance. Any way if you would send me an e-mail to dhess@aisinauto.com with your fax number I can get you a copy of the rules. Thanks, Duane
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reply #8 by: billiardsforum	Posted - 12/14/2008 at 9:39:57 PM
Owner and Administrator	Hi All - FYI, the Amos & Andy Billiard Board Game Rules that homerlee has sent me have been posted in the Billiard Rules section.
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reply #9 by: guest	Posted - 06/29/2012 at 6:59:07 PM
"Guest Account"	I have an Amos and Andy board for sale. Its really old but in great shape.
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