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 love playing billiards at home for fun!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Billiards is another name for pool, right? I'm not very good at playing pool. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is! They also refer to it as \"cue sports\" but they both mean the same thing-a sport where a table on which billiards-type games can be played."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Okay, so I know you break, and then you're either solids or stripes, and then you try to get the 8-ball last, right? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yep! they call that \"eight-ball.\" It's very universally known type of game."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh, so that's just one type of game. What other kinds of games can you play on a pool table? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There's three-ball, but I'm actually not sure what the rules are. There's also Blackball, which is popular in Ireland."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting! I had no idea there were other games. I thought it was all just \"pool\". Are there competitive pool leagues? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Definitely! It's a very competitive sport. In the U.S., they have the Valley National 8-Ball League Association, which is one of the world's largest amateur pool leagues."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow, are there \"pros\" then in the sport? "}]