If you’ve ever considered becoming a pool shark in the vein of Minnesota Fats—or perhaps Tom Cruise in The Color of Money—you might have first considered how a nonsentient object like a pool table can ...

It’s magnets! Seriously. There’s a layer of iron underneath the cue ball that gets nudged and pulled by a strong magnet inside the pool table so that it gets put on a completely different track from ...

You'll find a pool table in many a bar and basement, but are you brave enough to pick up the cue stick? Knowing how to hold your own in a game of pool is great for social situations with friends who ...

If you've ever played pool on a table that takes quarters and also aren't particularly good at pool, you have probably landed the cue ball in the pocket. Repeatedly. And even though the stripes and ...