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The order in which you play the colors is the same as the final 6 colors in snooker (yellow, green, brown, pink, black) if the number of balls of each color is the same. For example you play for yellow here:

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Not that the starting area shown here only affects the first shot, the goal is to prevent it from being significantly advantageous or disadvantageous to play first.

For every shot you play for a color determined by the number of balls of each color, if the number of balls of two colors is the same you play them in the same order as snooker, otherwise you always play for the most numerous color.

Example
Let's say you have the following number of balls of each color

4 black
3 pink
4 blue
1 brown
2 green
1 yellow

Then of course you are playing for blue and after that you are playing for black. If you potted 2 blue balls after that 1 black ball it's pink color after that followed by black and green.
 

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Scoring
The base value is the square of the number of balls potted.

But potting all balls of one color will double the number of points awarded. Clearing two colors will result in 4x the points and so on.

But all the points will be awarded to the opponent if the player pots any balls of a color other than the color the player was supposed to play for or if any foul was committed that wasn't minor.

points = 2^{the number of colors cleared} * {number of object balls potted}²

If the cueball is potted it will count as having cleared a color but it will not count as a ball potted.

CC = color cleared:
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Balls potted   points (0 CC)    points (1 CC)    Points (2 CC)    points(3 CC)   Points(4 CC)   points(5 CC)   Points(6 CC)    points(7 CC)    Points(8 CC)    points(9 CC)    points(10 CC)    points(11 CC)    Points(12 CC)    points(13 CC)    Points(14 CC)    points(15 CC)    Points(16 CC)    points(17 CC)    Points(18 CC)    points(19 CC)
1              1                2                4                                                                                                               
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Foul rules
By default the number of foul points given will be 1.

Merely potting the cueball itself will not give foul points however but it will result in "ball in hand" for the player who did not pot the cueball.

Foul and a miss
You can give the players multiple chances to hit the object ball resulting in the following options before those chances are used up.

0. Have the opponent play the shot again.
1. Play from the new position yourself.
2. Have your opponent play again from the new position.

Note that if 2 is opted for the count simply continues from the new position until all attempts are used up resulting in:

Severe foul
The player who did not commit the severe foul will get the folllowing options

2. Have your opponent play again from the new position.
3. Move the cueball to an arbitrary position and play from there.
4. Replace the position of 2 balls and play from there.

Minor foul
With a minor foul the only consequence be 1 point awarded to the player who did not commit the minor foul.

Examples of minor fouls are

A. No ball of the target color potted and no ball that wasn't potted hit the cushion after contact.
B. Accidentally touching a ball is a minor foul if the ball can be re-positioned back to it's proper position.

Note that players are allowed to intentionally commit A.

If B happens the ball will be put back to it's proper position unless the player who did not commit the foul prefer the new position.
 

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Should there be instant "severe foul" if there is more than one ball of the color?
It can be time consuming and messy to put all the balls back to have a player try again. It's faster to instead of "foul and a miss" only give the player one chance to hit one of the object balls when there are more than 1 of the target color. That also means that you cannot force the other player to retake the shot from the previous position.

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Yellow is the target color.
 

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Match format
You win a frame by having more points than your opponent when the final ball is potted.

If the score is equal when the final ball was potted:

Pink and yellow ball game
A pink and yellow ball will be put back to the table and the turn will be passed to the player who did not pot the final ball.

You can use the follow spots to put back the yellow and pink ball where the pink ball goes at the furthest to the right available spot and the yellow ball goes the furthest to the left available spot (marked with black):

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Colorball with 96 balls
This is a much more hardcore version of colorball that will be rather expensive to try due to the large amount of balls required.

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Having 6 colors instead of 5 makes positional play significantly harder due the number of target balls being less relative to the number of other balls. You can actually snooker yourself really badly if you play a poor positional shot.

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Here the best option is probably a swerve shot towards the yellow furthest to the right. Even if you pull that off however you might still fail to get the cueball safe.

Deciding who makes the break
The player who potted the final ball (excluding pink and yellow ball game) will get to play first in the next frame (if making the first shot gives an advantage).

You can use something similar to the "black ball game" (snooker) to determine who will break in the first frame. Only difference (besides maybe having a different starting position) will be if the black ball is potted at the first attempt in which the following will apply

0. The black will be respotted after each pot.
1. Failing to pot the black will result in you losing.
2. The location of the cueball is never changed.
3. The player will put a green ball at an arbitrary location to the half-right (if the black ball is respotted at the position furthest to the left available), this continues until the number of green balls at the table is equal to the number of green balls you start with for the next frame.

Alternative format to decide who makes the first shot
The winner of the last frame will break the next frame unless it's a frame to win the match in which case your opponent will break, the amount of frames will be extended (such as by 4) if it ends in a draw (such as 8 vs 8) where the player to break will be the first one to be one frame short of winning (such as winning 5 frames out of 10).

That results in no advantage for either player if it's best off an even number of frames (assuming players play equally well each frame).

The hybrid format
You can start with a game with fewer balls (such as 6 colors, 5 balls per color) where the player to pot the final ball in that game will get to break in the full 96 ball game, all points scored will carry over.
 

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Colorball vs snooker
Obviously in colorball cueball control is significantly more important than in snooker. With snooker a poor positional shot will typically merely result making the pot a bit harder in colorball a poor positional shot is often utterly disastrous where you might end up completely snookered not even able to easily do a safety shot.

Failing to make a pot is instead on average less costly in colorball since the color you would play for next typically not the same color that your opponent would play for in the case you miss the shot, this can compared with snooker where you can basically get punished for playing a good positional shot due to you missing the pot on a color laying up the cueball for your opponent.

In colorball there will be fewer opportunities for player to make straight long-pots since there will often be balls obstructing. The importance of long-potting will generally decrease when more balls are added, especially if the player to break is being given an opportunity to pot right away (such as the 96 ball variant shown earlier).

Being able to do swerve shots well will be a lot more important due to all the balls often blocking escapes using the cushion.
 

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Colorball with 5 colors and 31 balls
Here you play for brown first since there are only 6 of every other color here.

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Note that you can use 7 red balls instead of the 7 brown balls shown here.
 

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When balls are illegally potted
Any ball that was potted of a color other than the target color will be put back to the table by the player who makes the next shot. Said player will decide the position of every ball being put back with the following restrictions

0. The distance to any other non-cueball has to be at least the radius of the ball being put back.
1. There can be no overlap between a pocket-hole and the ball being put back.

Note that the turn will be passed over to the player who didn't make the illegal pot and it cannot be passed back unless a foul (not counting the illegal pot itself) was committed that gives the option to pass the turn to the opponent (such as hitting the wrong color first).

Balls that were illegally potted also doesn't count towards the requirement to hit a cushion after contact if no pot is made so potentially resulting in an additional penalty point of 1 being added.
 

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Colorball strategy
When the shot is easy your main priority will typically be to get into good position for yourself.

But if you are likely to miss it's also valuable that the opponent cannot get an easy shot if you miss.

There are typically spots that are both safe if you miss but also provide a good potting opportunity if you make a pot. Playing for a position like that isn't always worthwhile though.

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Here the yellow is very difficult but there also isn't any easy safety.

Best option might be to simply go for the difficult long yellow and not even try to get the cueball safe.
 

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Alternative scoring system
Not sure if it's better than the earlier suggestion but it might be easier for people to understand.

number of points per ball (including the cueball) = {the number of balls potted*} + {the number of colors cleared*}

* Not counting the cueball.

That will reduce the value of clearing all remaining balls of a color if there is more than one ball left of said color.

Legally potting the remaining 2 balls would just give 6 points instead of 8.

Unclear if this would be easier for people to understand than the earlier suggestion, it's also unclear if it is any better.
 
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