Pool · Jaimes Tan Games

Drag anywhere to aim. Pull further from the white for more power.

Press anywhere on the table and drag: the white is struck from your finger towards the ball · Further away = harder · Let go to shoot, or let go next to the white to cancel

Shots: 0
Balls left: 15
Best: —

The prompt

Make solo pool in one HTML file with hand-written 2D physics: rolling friction, elastic ball-to-ball collisions with equal mass, cushion bounces that lose energy, and six pockets with open mouths. Aim by dragging like a slingshot, show the cue, a dotted aim line, a ghost ball where the white will hit, and the direction the object ball will go. Count shots, add a penalty for potting the white, save the best score.

Claude wrote this game from a short brief like this one. It was then played, tested on phones and tuned before it went up here.

How to play

Pot all 15 coloured balls. Fewer shots is better.
The dotted circle shows where the white will meet the first ball. The yellow line shows where that ball will go.
Potting the white costs one penalty shot and puts it back behind the line.

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