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Pool Challenge
by Nebulark Studio · Sports · v1.1.0
Top-down billiards under a warm lamp: clear nine balls against a 3-minute clock in as few shots as you can, or crack eight handcrafted trick shots.
How to play
- Pot the coloured balls with the white cue ball. Pick Pocket Rush or Trick Shots and press Play.
- Aim: move the mouse over the table. The dotted guide shows the first ball you will hit, where it will go (gold) and where the cue ball glances off.
- Power: use the Power slider, the mouse wheel or the Up/Down arrows (W/S). Click, Shoot, Space or Enter strikes. The ‹ › buttons or Left/Right arrows (A/D) fine-tune the aim; hold Shift for finer steps.
- Or drag back: press behind the cue ball, pull back away from the shot and release. The longer the pull, the harder the shot. On phones you can also tap to point the cue, nudge it with ‹ › and hold Shoot to charge, then let go.
- Pocket Rush: +100 per ball, a combo bonus for several balls in one shot (+50, +150, +300…), −20 per shot and −150 for a scratch (the cue ball is respotted). The run ends when the table is clear, after 3 minutes or after 40 shots.
- Trick Shots: pot the gold-ringed target with one shot without scratching. A miss resets the puzzle; Skip (or N) moves on. Solve on the first try for 3 stars, in 2–3 tries for 2.
- Give up (press twice) ends a run early without a score. Esc or P pauses, M mutes, ? opens the help. Leave mid-run and Continue later from the menu.
Controls
Keyboard
- Mouse over the table — aim
- Click / Shoot / Space / Enter — strike
- Power slider / mouse wheel / ↑ ↓ / W S — power
- Drag back from the cue ball — aim + power, release to strike
- ‹ › buttons / ← → / A D — fine aim (Shift = finer)
- N — skip trick shot
- Esc / P — pause
- ? — how to play
- M — mute
Touch
- Drag back from the cue ball — aim and set power
- Lift your finger — strike
- Tap — point the cue at a spot
- ‹ › — fine aim (hold to keep turning)
- Hold Shoot — charge the power, release to strike
- Skip / Give up buttons
- ? / Pause buttons
About Pool Challenge
Pool Challenge is a single-player cue-sports game played on a sleek modern table with deep indigo cloth, walnut rails and three hanging lamps. Aim the cue with the mouse and a power slider, or drag back from the cue ball like a slingshot and let go. A dotted guide shows the first ball you will hit, where it will travel and where the cue ball will glance off. Balls collide and bounce with real, deterministic physics. In Pocket Rush, a seeded spread of nine glossy solids and stripes waits on the table: every ball potted is worth 100, potting several with one shot adds a growing combo bonus, every shot costs 20 and scratching the cue ball costs 150. Clear the table before the 3-minute clock runs out for a place on the verified leaderboard. Trick Shots offers eight original one-shot puzzles (banks, kicks, combinations, a narrow gate and a full-length thin cut), and your solved puzzles are saved. On phones held upright, the table turns vertical so it fills the screen.
Features
- ✓ Custom deterministic billiards physics (240 Hz, time-of-impact collisions, cushion and rolling friction) with a server-verified leaderboard
- ✓ Aim guide with ghost ball, object-ball direction and cue-ball tangent, plus ‹ › fine aim on every device
- ✓ Pocket Rush: seeded 9-ball layouts, combo bonus, 3-minute clock
- ✓ Eight original Trick Shot puzzles with saved progress and 1–3 star ratings
- ✓ Mouse + power slider, drag-back slingshot, hold-to-charge Shoot, keyboard fine aim and touch controls
- ✓ Table rotates to a vertical layout on portrait phones
- ✓ Procedurally drawn table, glossy balls and cue, synthesized sounds
- ✓ Save and continue a run later, even mid-shot
- Category
- Sports
- Devices
- desktop, tablet, mobile
- Developer
- Nebulark Studio
- Last updated
- Nov 10, 2026
