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How do bar pool tables differentiate between numbered balls and the cue ball when you scratch?
When playing pool at a bar where you pay quarters for each game when you scratch the cue ball is always returned but the numbered balls are put in the case. what is the difference between the balls so the table knowns which to place where?
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Coin-op pool tables are designed one of two ways with regard to the cue ball being returned to you: Either the cue ball is slightly larger than the other balls (which allows it to travel down a different chute), or the cue ball has a magnet embedded in it (which trips a sensor to move a gate directing the cue ball down a different chute). It's much more common to find a coin-op table featuring an oversized cue ball than one with the "magnetic" cue ball.
Cue ball is a different size.
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