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A red is one point, a black seven, and the colours must be potted in order at the end. The figure is taken from World Snooker, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Snooker colours are worth different points

A red is one point, a black seven, and the colours must be potted in order at the end There are 15 reds worth a point each, and a player must nominate and pot a colour after each red before it is respotted. Once the reds are gone, the colours go in ascending value from yellow to black and stay down. That is why the closing sequence is worth 27 points. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A red is one point, a black seven, and the colours must be potted in order at the end. The figure is taken from World Snooker, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.