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A maximum snooker break is 147

It means fifteen reds each followed by a black, then all the colours The break requires potting every red with a black, then clearing yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black. A free ball at the start of a break allows a higher score, and the highest competitive break on record is 148. Ronnie O'Sullivan made the fastest 147 in about five minutes in 1997. 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?: It means fifteen reds each followed by a black, then all the colours. 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.