This pool game can spice up any league, see how Honolulu can add a whole new dimension of strategy to your pool night
There’s a game out there known by many names, such as Banks, Kisses & Combinations, or Indirect. But here at BarStoolStats we prefer to call it Honolulu. In short, it’s a game where you must not use any straight in shots are absolutely forbidden!
That’s right, one can only use: Banks, Combinations, caroms/kisses, or kick shots to score points. This makes for quite a tricky game! Official rules of the BCA dictate that one must call the ball and target pocket before attempting to score in Honolulu.
The balls in Honolulu are racked on a pool table’s foot spot with a full set of 15 object balls placed in random order. On the opening break shot, the player must either call a ball out of the rack and an intended pocket, or cause two object balls and the cue ball to strike a rail. The failure to do so is a foul.
Just like in One-Pocket, if you commit a foul you will lose one point in Honolulu. This means that the previously pocketed ball must be returned the table’s surface. Such spotted balls are placed on the table’s long string as close as possible to the foot spot, and frozen or as close as possible to frozen to any balls already occupying that space in the direction of the foot rail. However, if the occupying ball is the cue ball, the spotted ball shall not be frozen to it. If a player has no balls to spot, the penalty is owed, and at the end of the player’s next scoring inning, the requisite number of balls owed are replaced
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