Kolkhoz (troynik, kolbasa)

Kolkhoz (also kolbasa, troynik) is a club collective discipline on the pyramid table. No single nationwide regulation: rules are fixed at the table before play.

Main idea: you do not play for yourself but for the player before you in order, and try not to leave easy balls for whoever follows you.

• 3 or more participants; shot order — by lot, in rotation.
• 15 white pyramid + colored cue ball; break as in free pyramid.
• Ball you pocket counts for player before you in queue (or to shelf / score pocket — by agreement).
• After run or frame: your pocketed minus next player pocketed. Example: you 3, they 2 — you +1.
• The fewer the next player pockets, the better your result.
• Tactics: leave hard position, do not feed next in rotation.

Colored balls with point values added to whites: white = 1, yellow = 2, red = 3 and up — set depends on hall.

• Color ball often pocketed with call (as in Moscow): name ball and pocket.
• Svoyak (ball same color as just played) gives fewer points and may stay on table or be removed per club rules.
• Durak — uncalled or accidentally pocketed ball; penalty points per hall table.
• High-value color ball sometimes not removed immediately but spotted on foot spot if lower-value balls remain.

• Points recorded after each pocket or end of rotation — as agreed.
• End of frame compare all participants; negative values often zeroed or passed as penalty next round.
• Foul penalty: white kolkhoz often -1; color — minus value of called ball.

• Agree: player count, color set, call shots, durak handling, frame limit.
• Write player order — queue confusion is a common dispute cause.
• billiard.guru does not run kolkhoz tournaments — friendly club format.

• Base pyramid fouls (miss, cue ball in pocket without scoring, ball off table) — by agreement, often as free pyramid; penalty often -1 in white kolkhoz.
• In color — minus value of called ball or durak to opponent.
• After foul next player in rotation shoots.