Originally Posted by zawtowers:
“Even the rules of the game aren't 100% clear. On reds, absolutely makes sense (as per Dechawat's infamous Crucible three misses). On colours though, the offending player can nominate a different ball each time, but if nominating the same ball (which was not straight on) maybe that was why it was the situation it was.
Unless the rules deem any colour hittable to be a ball "on" and as the player could have chosen to nominate a colour in a clear line, it's deemed as such that way?”
Logically I would have thought you can only have 3 attempts at any of the snookered colours, otherwise you could alternate between, say, brown and green, and have 6 attempts!