Billiards was played outdoors on the ground with balls and sticks, called cues, in the 14th century. It became an indoor game when billiard tables began to be used indoors in the 17th century.
1650-1750. No one knows exactly when the Italian game of trucco, using balls and cues on the lawn, was moved inside and became a table game. However, billiards (from the Italian billiardo) was popular by the late 1700's. The modern game of billiards owes its creation to the leather pool tip which was adopted in very early 1800's.
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No. Billiards evolved in Italy and France from an Italian lawn game referred to as trucco. Trucco uses balls and cue sticks, and was moved indoors and onto a table but there is no record of who first had the idea to make it an indoor game.
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