I Bought the Strangest Snooker Gadgets Online

Stephen ordered random snooker items from the internet to put to the test and rate them out of five. Which is your favourite product from this video?

Items featured in the video:
Snooker Aiming Trainer: https://shorturl.at/NfJOE
2 Piece Hardwood Snooker Cue: https://shorturl.at/PFHXS
Snooker Aiming Practice Tool: https://amzn.to/4jZp9Xy
8 in 1 Snooker Cue Tip Sharpener: https://amzn.to/3Gbadrp
Snooker Pocket Sports Game: https://amzn.to/3TyoaTl
Carrooka: https://carrooka.com/
Stroke Exerciser: https://amzn.to/40i1XN7
Retractable Chalk Holder: https://amzn.to/45SuLjd
Cue Laser Sight: https://ebay.us/m/ItSOSv
Snooker & Pool Socks: https://amzn.to/4laKw9e
Snooker Word Search: https://amzn.to/4kStFs4
Light Up Pool Table: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3129270
Snooker Cake Toppers: https://amzn.to/3HQ4VCp
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So, we found more random snooker related products on the internet. So, we’re going to have a look at a few and give them a rating out of five. Okay, let’s go with the first one. And this is called a snooker aiming trainer, which comes in this natty little pouch. Not the snappiest title, you would say. We’ve got this pretty technical looking thing. We’ve got these two sticks that I presume they go in there. I don’t know why one’s black, one’s red. My first look at this is I don’t have a clue um what to do with it. To me, snooker was natural. So, these a lot of these technical aids, they go a little bit over my head and I need to be taught um how to use them. If someone can maybe comment in and tell me what 52.5 means, uh I’ll be it’ll be gladly received cuz I haven’t got a clue. What I presume is it’s kind of it’s an aiming product. So, it’s obviously to try and find the potting point uh on the ball to pot. So, say we’ve got this black to cut into there. So, got this little groove where obviously the ball sits in. Now, I presume you line it up with a pocket. Whoever invented this will be screaming down the screen at me, probably if I’m doing it wrong. There’s a line on this aiming trainer. So, I’ve got it with the potting port in the black. I presume these help you with just a bit of sighting. To get to that potting point, we’ve got all these little plastic things here. And I presume what you do is line up the CQ ball up with one of these lines that’s going towards that that’s going to the potting point of the black. So, if I try and test this out. So, if I was going to aim straight at there. Okay, I’m aiming straight. I think I’ve got it. Take it away. Now, whether I’m still aiming at the same point, I don’t know. It’s a complicated way of going about finding the potting point. I mean, I would just say just as easy as coming round, having a look at the ball, getting the straight line in your ey line, keeping your eye on it, going back, and getting down playing the shot. Once you’ve seen the potting point, got to get take it away. So maybe you’ve forgotten the line by the time you’ve taken this away. It’s a bit complicated for me and I’m going to give it an overall three out of five being a bit generous cuz even when I first took up snooker, I think I’ll take one look at this and say no thanks. So say I’ve got no idea what 52.5 uh means. Someone has just actually told me, and this is incredible that I don’t know this, that it’s actually the size of a snooker ball. So I’ve learned something today. If only for nothing else, this implement I’ve learned the size of a snooker ball. This is the cheapest brand new snooker cube we could find online. Now, this is Q is is clearly for a beginner. And what I would say about this queue, it’s maybe not for a fulls size table. And I’ll tell you the reason for that is the feral in tip is um well, you can see it’s huge. It’s almost like a pool queue rather than a snooker queue. I had a similar queue to this when I first started playing on a 6×3 table um when I was 13. So, it’s more a queue for that sort of situation rather than a fulls size table. Another thing why this queue is so cheap. You can see the tip actually screws on and off. Uh you that’s got to be tight obviously because if you don’t that’s going to rattle again if you got this. It’s I suppose one of the advantages of a cheap Q. Maybe that if you need a new tip, you just unscrew this one and get another one. Because of the the make of the tip, you’re not going to get much Q ball control with this. But we’ll give it a go. Tip is pretty hard. It’s pretty solid. Two-piece Q joint in the middle, so easy to carry around. Now, this probably won’t make the nicest sound in the world. It’s a pretty thick bit of wood. Yeah, didn’t make a very nice sound because the tip is um basically as hard as as that. Kind of like what Mark Williams uses. Actually hits the ball better than I expected. If you’re a snooker player, professional snooker player, I mean, this just sends shivers down your spine. This huge fereral and I don’t know what this black bit underneath the tip is, but yeah, you basically think you’re not going to get any control whatsoever. So, as I said, it’s not really for play on a professional cloth on a fulls size table with professional balls because you just won’t get the control at all. But for a beginner, maybe playing on a 3/4 size table actually think it’s not a bad bit of kit and you’re a beginner. You’re not going to be playing shots with loads of side or loads of screw back shots or top spin cuz you’re not going to be able to do that with this queue. But if you just want to pop balls, not bad. So, rating, I’d give this four out of five. actually another sort of visual trainer for snooker. I looked at the pictures um and I really have no idea what benefit this has. I presume you put your queue through there. Now it only goes that far. So I don’t know whe that’s meant to happen, but obviously anyone with thicker queue than this will not even be able to use it. There’s two lines here. That’s pretty much Yeah. So that you can see that’s the size of the ball pretty much. All I can fathom is it’s to keep you in the middle of the middle of the Q ball because obviously the hole where the the queue goes through is right in the middle of the two lines which is obviously the width of the Q ball. So it’s to train you to hit the middle of the white but how you can concentrate in that with this perspect thing going back and forward I have no idea. It’s the most random ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. I suppose if I’m going to give a plus for this thing. Um, if you struggle with always putting unwanted side on the CQ ball, maybe this is a thing for you. Unwanted side normally comes by going like that. So, if you put an unwanted side, you’re still going to go through and go like that. It’s not stopping you from not hitting the middle of the CQ ball. You suppose you got to keep looking at those lines, keep them going back and forth or straight. I mean, I’m going dizzy. I’m actually going dizzy. This is the biggest waste of time of any object that’s ever been made to do with snooker that I’ve ever seen. 0.5 out of five. This item £11.99 from Amazon. Well, it’s advertised 8in1 Q-tip repairer shaper. It says there’s eight ways of on this little thing of sorting your tip out. I mean, the first one I’m going to put that in there. And that’s I don’t know what that does actually. Yeah, I’m learning on the go here as well. There’s a blade here which you got to be careful. You only stick your finger in there which let’s have a go see what happens. What’s that done to it? Oh yeah, it’s kind of like it’s just taking a little bit. So the blade obviously you can put it in there and and it’s and it’s shaping the the the tip one way. The blade here I don’t know what that does. I’ve never put a tip on in my life by the way. So this is alien to me anyway. You’ve got thing here to sort of that’ll you know shape the tip. This is um it’s like a steel brush thing. I mean people are going to be laughing at me there. It’s like sandpaper but it’s and it’s obviously for you know you would use it more like that. I suppose to shape shape the tip. That’s the same thing but it’s more sloped. So obviously helps you to create that sort of dome shape effect. I’m not sure you can see that top one there. the lines. I’m not sure that I mean I presume it’s that sort of that sort of business. You can see with the tip it’s getting slightly ruffled up here by the by the sandpaper. Uh this is a flat one. I presume you do something like that if the tip was a little bit soft. This one I don’t know what these brushes do. Again, maybe just rough. If you got a hard tip, sometimes sometimes I used to get a file, just an ordinary metal file, and literally tap it, and it would create little tiny little indentations in the tip, which would just soften it up a little bit. Um, so I presume that’s a similar sort of thing. But yeah, I can’t find eight different things. There’s one, that’s two, three, four, five, six. Where’s the other two? I think this is a bit severe. This on on here. I I I it’s quite rough. I don’t think you want something that rough on on on the tip of your queue. This I’d say it’s pretty dangerous. I mean, that’s I mean, if you put slipped and put your finger through that, that that wouldn’t be clever. These things are pretty much the same. Although that’s that’s kind of like sloped. This you can do the same thing. You just do that. Someone’s had too much time in their hands and invented this thing where you can basically do it with a metal file, a normal bit of sandpaper. I mean, I think you need two or three things um to help you put a tip on. You don’t need eight. And I can’t find eight. There’s only six. So, give a mark away for that. 1.5 out of five. I’m giving this $9.95 from Amazon gets you this little green pouch. Pocket sports snooker. Let’s see what’s inside. We got a bag. We got some dice. Dice. We’ve got various things in them. Pot left. Easy pot. Leave tricky pot. Brown. That’s for the colors obviously. Miss, don’t know what these are for. So, let’s have a look at the rules. Oh dear. To start the game, flip a coin to decide who breaks. The person that breaks throws the inplay dice, which is this one. So, you throw that and that says leave tricky pot. Leave tricky pot. You have left your opponent a difficult chance to pot. Opponent can go for the pot when playing a tricky pot dice or decline the pot and continue the inplay dice. Okay, I’m going to cut this short now. I’ve already lost the will to live by reading all these instructions. It looks like a game that maybe you could play down the pub or play with some friends, but you need someone that understands rules of games, which I am not. Um, I have already lost patience with this after two lines. I’m going to give this a one out of five. I don’t even understand what it is. I don’t know why these what these are for. These look like floral gums. I used to eat these when I was young. And when you eat these, floral gums are amazing. Like cherry lips. That’s what these look like. Okay, this is karuka. It’s snooker in a fashion. The thing I like about this the most is you can twist the table around. You could have this post dinner party, I suppose, at the table and and everyone sits and and nobody needs to move. You can just move it around. But anyway, we’ve got the white ball here. You got to break the reds. I mean, I suppose it’s like um I used to play Sabuto when I was young. Um it’s a little bit like that. You got to you got to sort of finesse the or you know get your flick strength um to get the most Q ball power, I suppose. So basically flick. So I’ve broken off. Say someone is sat over there. They move that round or move it around to wherever. What? Red. I’m going to go a plant here. Try and get this plant in him in the middle pocket. Great effort. Went in off. This Q ball is bigger than the actual color balls. I’m calling them balls. They’re like obviously they’re like drafts. So you get a draft board. Don’t know why it’s bigger because that cub should never go on and off there. So gone off. So, I’m going to put the CQ ball behind this sort of there’s two lines. There’s an outer line. There’s an inner line. So, I’m going to put it behind. So, it’s a bit of a long pot. This positioning the color is not going to be easy. Try and cut the black in. Not a bad effort. Now, what I just split the reds again. I did pop one. That’s a fluke. I try and put the yellow. Colors are not The way the colors are on the side, it’s not easy. Decent pot as my my old Sabu skills are coming in here. Let’s try and put this red along there. I’m on fire. Table’s a bit of a mess now, but um yeah, it’s a decent party game, I think. Marks out of five. It’s quite difficult once you put it a red to be able to be on a a color to pot it. This is bigger than these. I don’t know why, cuz it means when you play a shot, it just follows through. Overall, as in a fun game to play, I’m going to give it four out of five. Okay, next up is a stroke exerciser. Now, it’s not as dodgy as it might sound. This is implement. Um, could be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in terms of helping you play snooker or pool. At that price, I can’t believe they’ve sold one, but obviously they have because we’ve got it here. So, um, well done. If you go by the diagrams, you put it, if I’m going to pop this pink, I mean, I presume you got to like I mean, it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t stop the queue moving around because look. Yeah. Real good. So, I mean, you’ve got to spend the time lining it up with the pot. You haven’t got even got your potting point yet. You get your potting point separately and then put this thing down. And it’s supposed to help you queue in a straight line, which it doesn’t because you can see the queue goes all over the place. I mean, it’s like it’s a tube and it’s two rubber shapes. How someone has thought that is going to help you play snooker, I have no idea. I presume you got other options of turning that on that side, turning that like that to a slightly slightly different angle. I don’t know how something that’s supposed to be a stroke exerciser. You can’t actually have a stroke. I mean, it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. Everything Everything moves. All I can say is every credit for trying to think of something and coming up with this ridiculous thing, but um it’s not going to improve your snooker. And I’m going to give you 0.5, which is very generous, but only because the thought that’s gone into this to think that this might help Snooker. So, I do apologize for the review, but I don’t know where you’re going with this. No, thank you. Okay, next item. Um, you can get off Amazon for about seven or eight quid. Obviously, it’s more for pool players, uh, cuz it’s got the number eight on it, so it’s not really a snooker player thing, but you could use it for snooker because it’s it’s a chalk holder. Now, it’s not going to work with the latest uh because you see that square. It’s not going to work with the latest round chalk. Can I get in there? So, you need the old sort of triangle chalk, which obviously goes in there like that. And the cool thing about this is cuz obviously no one wants to put chalk in their jeans or their trousers when you’re going to rip your jeans. That’s what I used to do. Clip it onto your thing here. And it’s on a kind of elastic. So, you can basically chalk the queue. And I would say just go let it go. Water on the table. To use something like this, you’re going to have to be a good player because if you don’t, you’re going to get um the Mickey ripped out you by your mates for something like this. Yeah. I mean, you’ll have a bit of fun with it. The only thing is when when the chalk goes gets really worn when with these chalk holders, sometimes you can’t get to the it’s more difficult to ch the cube. Do I look cool or not? I’ll let you decide. Marks out of five for this. It’s a bit gimmicky. I mean, you could put your keys on there. I mean, you could have a big massive clump of keys walking on your trousers as well. So, I think I’m going to give this four out of five. I think it’s quite cool. So, on eBay for about £15, you can get yourself this pretty well lethal lethal looking bit of kit. What it is, it’s a laser to help you aiming or I presume to help your aiming point on the Q ball. You basically fix the laser onto your queue. You get this Allen key. There’s a button at the end of it. We’ll press that on. So, you can see there, look, there’s a a little light. So, the fact that this laser is higher up on the queue means it’s never going to be the tip of the queue is never going to be hitting the same point as the actual light, the light is always going to be above. But if I’m looking for ways, positive ways, this is going to help you. I suppose if you go either way like that, then the light is moving to the right side and the left side. So, if you keep the laser level and the light level, but obviously coming back, it’s it keeps hitting my finger and yeah, that’s that’s going to well that’s going to take the skin of your finger off. Now, I’ve potted that pink basically through sheer talent. Nothing to do with the laser light at all. So, it’s another one of these random things that’s supposed to help you sight it. I think it’s more gimmick than actually helping you. I don’t know where it can be in the queue where it’s not if you’re queuing up, it’s not, you know, taking the skin off your fingers and the light is never going to be on the Q ball where you’re actually striking it. So, we moved it forward to see if that helps at all. But the only problem you got with that is, okay, it’s closer and the lights on, but now I can’t see the tip of the queue. So, I don’t know where it is. I don’t know how far away the tip of the queue is to the CQ ball. Even if you’re like aimed like that, you can’t You can’t see the tip of the queue. I remember once years ago, Len Ganley, the famous referee, had a laser. He bought it from the Far East. And if anyone in the crowd were making a noise, he’d actually laser pen them so they’d so that you can maybe use it for that. I don’t see the point in this at all. In terms of helping you aim and play snooker or pool, I don’t think it’s any good at all. 0.5 out of five. Bit savage, but um I’m not impressed. Finally, something out of all these things we’ve got on the internet that you can actually use, and it’s a pair of socks. It’s nothing to do with trying to sight the CQ ball or make your stroke better um or hit the middle of the CQ ball. It’s just a pair of socks. Now, you just know they’re going to work. Ken Doerty would love these. Obviously, pool, it’s not snooker. Pool balls on there. They look comfortable, nice and soft. For a pool fan, I give these five out of five. Okay, I don’t know if you’re like me, I love a word search. And this is for a snooker fan. The perfect gift. A snooker word search. Easy to hard puzzles. Nice picture. That’s a table in there. Easy. Hard. Okay, let’s go for the hard one, shall we? Attempt. Experience. Ah, got experience straight away. Pretty hard this because there’s only 10 words for all that. Nominate. Got it. I might take this on holiday. Snooker word search. 4.5 out of five. We’re going to look at the World Snooker 19 game on PlayStation. This is something that I am absolutely useless. Always have been. Um, PlayStation games. Let’s be Ron Sullivan, shall we? Versus Jud Trump. One frame match. This will be interesting. Never played one of these games before. Oh, that’s a dodgy shot. Wow, what a shot by Jud. I mean, he would never have played that in a real match. Very poor positional shot. Or does your opponent just put everything? I might have picked a wrong player here. He’s missed. We’re in, but we haven’t He’s not left anything. Oh, 100%. [Laughter] I think I’ll be sitting down again. Yeah, basically two shots I’ve lost the frame. That’s why I never play computer games. Graphics are good. Okay, so I can uh review this game while Jud Trump is at the table um clearing up. I never play computer games, so I don’t really it’s not I don’t know what what to judge it against. I think the graphics are amazing. You know, the the control, the CQ ball, the the speed, I suppose. I think if you’re certainly a computer game player and you like snooker, I think it looks pretty pretty cool. The only reason I’m not giving it five out of five because I don’t know how to play it. If I could play it and get the sort of um the feel of it, I’d maybe I’d maybe give it five out of five, but I’ll give it four out of five because it looks great, but I’m just hopeless at these things. For £13 from Argos, you can get this cool little pool table that will obviously go anywhere. You maybe in your office. Okay, it’s not the most level table in the world. I think without the lights, I’d probably give it 3 out of five. With the lights, I’m going to give it 4.5. Okay, so for $3.99 on Amazon, if there’s anyone um that you know is having a birthday party and having cakes, birthday cakes, cupcakes, you can get these edible snooker things that you basically stick on the cupcake. You got the triangle, you got guy queuing up there, you’ve got the chalk, and you’ve got a snooker table. So, as I say, any snooker fans that are having a birthday or anything, I think they’re they’re pretty good. And as I say, they are edible. So, I’ll show you bit of chalk there. Not the tastiest thing I’ve ever eaten, but it’s first chalk I’ve ever eaten. So, yeah, I think for a a fan, a snooker fan, I think that’s I think I’m going to give that a generous 4.5 out of five. I think they’re a good little gift. [Music]