Bumper Billiards

Ever played pool with no cue ball, chrome mushrooms in the way and a diner regular across the table? Ever played pool with no cue ball, chrome mushrooms in the way and a diner regular across the table? Bumper Billiards brings the bumper-pool table into a 1950s diner. Each side has five balls and a hole to aim for, with chrome bumpers guarding the middle of the cloth. How to play 1. Tap one of your cherry-red balls to pick it. There is no cue ball: you strike your own balls directly. 2. Drag to aim, set the power and shoot towards the hole at the far end. The regular aims for the hole at your end. 3. Use the bumpers. They kick a ball back slightly faster than it arrived, so bank around them or off them. 4. Sink one of yours and you shoot again. A ball that drops in the wrong hole goes back on its spot. 5. First to sink all five wins the match. Progression takes you through eight diners in town, each with its own regular and bumper layout. It starts at Lou's Corner, where Lou offers coffee if you win, and moves through Starlite Diner, Rocket Grill, The Jukebox and Atomic Café to The Silver Spoon, where Doc has owned the table since '59. Each regular is sharper than the last, all of them are proven winnable, and a victory opens the next diner. Matches pay nickels, the house currency, earned only by playing, which buy felts such as Cherry Soda and Mint Shake and ball sets like Root Beer Float and Pink Cadillac at the Five & Dime. Twelve 45 rpm records fill the jukebox as you reach milestones, and the Check keeps your tab of matches, balls sunk, longest visit and bumper hits. It all works offline, with no account, ads or purchases, on phone or tablet. The heart of it is the table itself. With up to nine chrome bumpers between your ball and the hole, the straight shot is rarely the right one, and the sweetest wins come from banking a ball off a mushroom and watching it curl home. Bumper Billiards brings the bumper-pool table into a 1950s diner. Each side has five balls and a hole to aim for, with chrome bumpers guarding the middle of the cloth. How to play 1. Tap one of your cherry-red balls to pick it. There is no cue ball: you strike your own balls directly. 2. Drag to aim, set the power and shoot towards the hole at the far end. The regular aims for the hole at your end. 3. Use the bumpers. They kick a ball back slightly faster than it arrived, so bank around them or off them. 4. Sink one of yours and you shoot again. A ball that drops in the wrong hole goes back on its spot. 5. First to sink all five wins the match. Progression takes you through eight diners in town, each with its own regular and bumper layout. It starts at Lou's Corner, where Lou offers coffee if you win, and moves through Starlite Diner, Rocket Grill, The Jukebox and Atomic Café to The Silver Spoon, where Doc has owned the table since '59. Each regular is sharper than the last, all of them are proven winnable, and a victory opens the next diner. Matches pay nickels, the house currency, earned only by playing, which buy felts such as Cherry Soda and Mint Shake and ball sets like Root Beer Float and Pink Cadillac at the Five & Dime. Twelve 45 rpm records fill the jukebox as you reach milestones, and the Check keeps your tab of matches, balls sunk, longest visit and bumper hits. It all works offline, with no account, ads or purchases, on phone or tablet. The heart of it is the table itself. With up to nine chrome bumpers between your ball and the hole, the straight shot is rarely the right one, and the sweetest wins come from banking a ball off a mushroom and watching it curl home.