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Snooker began as bored officers' invention

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When standing around gets dull, you naturally start combining random tabletop rules. Stationed in India during the nineteenth century, British officers got tired of the usual options and slapped together a new scoring system using colored spheres. The name itself was just military slang for a completely inexperienced recruit, making the entire globally recognized sport essentially a massive inside joke.

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