i enjoy playing recreational games like cards , darts or billiards.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports,  are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings in various parts of the world. For example, in British and Australian English, \"billiards\" usually refers exclusively to the game of English billiards, while in American and Canadian English it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context. There are 3 major subdivisions of games within cue sports:   There are other variants that make use of obstacles and targets, and table-top games played with disks instead of balls. Billiards has a long and rich history stretching from its inception in the 15th century, to the wrapping of the body of Mary, Queen of Scots, in her billiard table cover in 1586, through its many mentions in the works of Shakespeare, including the famous line \"let's to billiards\" in \"Antony and Cleopatra\" (1606\u201307), and through the many famous enthusiasts of the sport such as: Mozart, Louis XIV of France, Marie Antoinette, Immanuel Kant, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, George Washington, French president Jules Gr\u00e9vy, Charles Dickens, George Armstrong Custer, Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, W.C.\u00a0Fields, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, and Jackie Gleason.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I enjoy playing cue sports, a wide variety of games generally played with a cue stick.  What about you?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Years ago I used to play pool, but wasn't very good at it. My Grandfather was a very good billiards player."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Did he not give you a few tips? I love to play either billiards, pool and snooker similar games but different meanings in various parts of the world."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Unfortunately, he used to play at a Gentleman's Club and I was a little girl, so no tips! I know the difference between pool and billiards, but is snooker the same as billiards?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not really.  It has quite different rules and even balls but is still played on the same type of table with a cue.  It aparently originated in the 19th century in india.  though if you can play one type of game you can play them all."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's really interesting. I didn't know about India. Is it popular over there?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Now your asking! im not actually sure if it still is now.  All the que games have quite a history.  It seems that Billiards started back in the 15th century would you believe?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, that's amazing! What other historical stuff do you know?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This is a random one but Mary Queen of scots, after she passed away had her body wrapped and place on her billiard table!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Now there's an idea - I'm originally from Scotland, so perhaps I'll do that when I go, lol."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "lol that is an idea. there are so many famous people throughout history who have loved que sports - Abraham Lincoln, Marie Antoinette, Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth...the list just goes on...."}]