- A snooker table, like other billiard tables, has a playing surface made of green fabric (often worsted wool or baize) over a sheet of slate and 6 pockets. There is one at each corner and one in the center of each long side.
- A snooker table's surface contains a line at its bottom end, drawn parallel to the wide sides, with a semicircle across the middle of the line. This makes up the "baulk area." The table's pockets are rounded instead of cornered like a pool table.
- A standard size snooker table measures 12 by 6 feet. The actual tournament measurement size is 11 feet 8 1/2 inches by 5 feet 10 inches. There are also smaller 9-by-5 foot tables.
- The game starts with 3 balls (green, brown and yellow) placed across the baulk line the other 4 colors (black, pink and blue) running perpendicular to the line across the center. A pyramid of red balls lines up with the pink ball and the cue ball starts in the semicircle.
- Snooker is a popular billiard sport in many of the Commonwealth of Nations countries, which include Canada, Australia and India.
