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Encyclopedia > Carom

Carom is a board game. The word carom can refer to:

  • Carambole billiards, a billiards game possibly developed in the 18th century in France
  • Carrom, a family of tabletop games sharing a similarity in that their mechanics lie somewhere between billiards and shuffleboard
  • a slang term for a rebound in basketball
  • Ajwain, (also known as Carom, Ajowan, Bishop's Weed and Seeds Of Bishop's Weed), is an uncommon spice except in certain areas of Asia.
  • an invented term used in the television series Battlestar Galactica to describe the location of a DRADIS contact.

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There are two similar yet distinct carom billiard games known as 4-ball.
The shooter is penalized a point if he fails to carom on either red ball or if the shooter causes any ball to carom on his opponent's cue ball.
Thus, the shooter must avoid any carom of his opponent's ball while striving to carom on the two red object balls.
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