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by yumraj 2475 days ago
Ah, didn't know that. For me while growing up in India, Billiards was synonymous with the English version.
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Thats called snooker.
As the sibling comments mentioned, while snooker is also played on the English billiards table, it is a different game.

Snooker is played with 21 colored balls which must be pocketed in the correct order.

Billiards is played with 3 balls, 1 white per player (one has a black dot and the other doesn't) and a red ball.

Billiards table is bigger than the American Pool tables.

Snooker is played on an English billiards (usually just known as "billiards" in Commonwealth countries) table.