Kaisa (cue sport)

Kaisa or karoliina is a cue sport mainly played in Finland.

Kaisa equipment is similar to Russian pyramid from the 68 mm (2+11⁄16 in) balls, small pockets barely large enough for a ball to enter, and the long and heavy cue sticks.

A Finnish player, Marko Rautiainen, won the championship title.

[citation needed] Kaisa can be traced back to an 18th century game called Russian carambole played with two white cue balls and one red object ball.

At the start of the game (or with ball-in-hand after an opponent's foul), the player cannot shoot an object ball directly to a side (centre) pocket.

This kind of carom is called nakki in Finnish (which translates to "vienna sausage" or "hot dog" in English).

This adds an additional 6 points to the shot's value, which otherwise accumulates like a regular object-ball pocketing shot: Additionally, the player gets still more points if a ball with which the cue ball caromed for additional points (i.e. a nakki ball) is also pocketed on the same shot.

The number of points is awarded by the pocketed ball's value: white = 2, red = 3, yellow = 6.