Hexapool
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Hexapool, also known as hexagonal pool, is a variation of pocket billiards played on a hexagonal pool table such as those of a common variant of bumper pool. The table has only three pockets, one in every second corner, and the game is easy to play (also due to the cushions of the table, which are at angles of 60 degrees to each other.)
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[edit] Rules
The rules of the hexapool game(s) are unknown at the time of this writing.
[edit] History
Hexapool was invented by Frank Casey of Melbourne, Australia. The original table was made out of scrap timber and three spare table legs, with the felt being stretched by hand across the table.
Although hexapool was created as a new way to play pool, it was received by the public as simply a novelty. A recent alleged adaptation of hexapool, albeit modified, is zone ball.
[edit] Equipment Production
The manufactured hexapool tables came with a reversible playing surface, with cloth on the playing side and varnished wood on the other, which allowed it to be used as a regular table, e.g. for dining or playing cards; on one side and varnished timber on the other.
Perhaps only a few thousand of the original tables were produced. Second-generation hexapool tables can still be purchased as of this writing from a retailer, Prime Leisure, based in India.
