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 'cue sports' like billiards and whatnot. Cue sports are games of skill played with a cue stick, where you strike balls and make them move around a table with pockets they fall in on the corners and sides."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Shooting pool is a lot of fun. I haven't played pool in a long time.  What's your favorite type of pool game?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In British and Australian English, 'billiards' refers only to the game of English billiards while in American and Canadian English it gets used to refer to a class of games or to all cue games in general. I like straight pool."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Straight pool is the good way of having fun.   I didn't even know they had different types of billiards.  In fact I didn't even know billiards only refers to pool.  How interesting!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There's three kinds of games in cue sports. There's the ones that use obstacles and targets and the table-top games that use disks instead of balls. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Pretty cool.  Is shuffleboard a part of billiard games?    How about fooseball?  probably butchered the spelling"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In history it was always called billiards, although I call it pool. I'm not sure if fooseball or shuffleboard are considered cue games but I would consider them."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder who created the name for billiards"}]