Facebook messenger is not a place where you have to make conversation every time. But it offers many other opportunities like playing instant games on Facebook messenger. Due to environmental disease, everybody has to sit in their home. There is no meeting, nothing. But “Facebook” and “Facebook messenger” work as a pigeon who makes communication signals between the world. Also, messenger providing you a platform where, if you are not logged in to “messenger,” you can still enjoy communication and gaming. This “feature” brings many players to this platform. Here I will explain to you a brief description of how to play pool on messenger, which is the most popular game on messenger nowadays.
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How to Play Games on Facebook Messenger
Step 1: Open Facebook messenger:
- Make sure you and your friends and family using the latest versions of the messenger.
- If both of the “user’s” messenger app versions are different, then go to the app store or play store and update the app.
- Launch the messenger.
- Click on the + icon near the camera icon.
- Now tap the “more” button in the toolbar and find the “game controller icon.” Then click on this “controller icon.”
- Now you can select the game.
- Invite the player you want to play with.
How to Play 8 balls on Facebook Messenger
You can play the pool game with your friends as you already installed the Facebook messenger app, Now
- Click on the + point.
- Click on the games tab.
- Then select 8 balls and start playing.
- “8 ball” pool is a snooker game consist of:
- Table
- Six holes, 4 holes on each corner, and 2 holes in the middle of the table are known as pockets.
- There are 2 main factors to win the game: Extend power to shot
- The positioning of billboard balls
- Invite the friend whom you want to play.
- If you’re going to play alone, then:
- Tap on the search bar on messenger.
- Explore the game
- Tap on the play button and enjoy the game.
Playing Instruction
- Playing a game on messenger is the same as you play on game pigeon on imessage.
- To play, when your friend accepts the invitation request, then the 8-ball game will start.
- Tap on the play button.
- Now pull down the power gear to shoot the ball.
- See how many balls go into the pocket.
- When you finished your turn, now it’s the turn of your friend; let him make the shot.
- When he finished taking you to turn and repeat the same process till you finish your group balls as solid or stripped.
- When you finished all balls now, you have to hit on the 8-ball to win the game.
- The “person” who ended the game with pocketing 8-ball after pocketing all of his balls will be the winner.
How to Play 8-ball pool on imessage
- Break the rack: Start this game by breaking the rack, which contains solid and striped balls and a black 8-ball. Hit the rack with a white ball. As a result, the rack will break, and all balls will spread on the table some drop inside the pockets.
- Keep shooting until you fail to pocket a ball.
- Pocket all balls of your group.
- Call your shots.
- Pocket the 8-ball.
- The player who pockets the 8 balls first is the winner throughout the game.
Check this guide to learn How to Play Pool on Game Pigeon
What Info will Facebook control?
- All your details, such as name, age, contacts, date of birth, and marital status, they keep securing their app’s privacy.
- Your activity log to know what you like, make a post and share it on Facebook.
- Facebook will follow you around to see what kind of websites you visit and show you the relevant information you visited.
Games on Messenger:
Facebook messenger serving different kinds of game, including:
Instant games:
- “Pac-man”
- “8-Ball Pool.”
- Words with friends
- Cooking mama
- Solitaire
- Blackjack
- Soduko
- Snake
“Hidden games”: There are particular emoji messages through which you can launch hidden games. Using these emojis, you can unlock hidden games. Such as:
Basket Ball game:
This is the mini-game, which most popular hidden game among children and the young generation, as by placing certain words and emojis, you can start the mini hidden game.
This app has a straightforward interface.
- Download the latest version of Facebook messenger.
- It’s not compatible with web versions.
- The next step is to send the “basketball emoji” icon to a contact.
- Tap on it.
- A new window will pop up.
- The primary purpose of this game is to score as many balls can pass the ring. To make the highest score, swipe your finger towards the direction of hoop and ta-da.
- Its system is similar to one popular game Pac-Man where you have to move left or right with your fingers.
- One thing you must remember when you complete ten scores, the game will become challenging as the hoop starts moving left and right. You have to make the correct move to pass the ball from the hoop correctly.
Soccer:
The other game is Soccer. You know when you send a basketball to the hoop, then something pop up will happen.
At this point, send the “football emoji” to your friend, then a “keepy-uppy mini-game” pop up will appear. Click on it to start the mini hidden game.
- This app is compatible with mobile versions.
- Once you got this game, then start playing as it’s easy to play now.
- For playing, you have to kick the ball towards the net as much as possible.
- Put your fingers on a soccer ball and keep playing.
- This game is hard to play only experts can play this game. If you want to be an expert, then carry on playing.
Chess
- It is the most entertaining and “bit trickier” game on Facebook messenger.
- Finding facey b’s chess title is not easy to make it simple. In the chat screen type, the @FBCHESSPLAY and simultaneously a chessboard will appear on the screen.
- Don’t expect it a standard and easy mini-game.
- Here you can move chess pieces on a touch screen.
- In this game, you require a letter, and it is challenging to use.
- Every time you have to make a move as you will need to type “@fbchess,” followed by the piece of the letter and the code of square boxes you want to fill.
- It has different vital names:
- K stands for king
- Q stands for queen
- B stands for Bishop.
- N stands for Knight.
- R stands for rook
- P stands for pawn
- If you have to move any key, then move it with a specific number in the inbox like, if you move the king to square 2 or 3, then type “@fbchess Kc2” or “@fbchess Kc3”.
- If you get to hang in the game, then you will waste all of your time there.
How to Play Pool on Messenger: FAQ
How do you play games on messenger?
To play, when your friend accepts the invitation request, the 8-ball game will start.
- Tap on the play button.
- Now pull down the power gear to shoot the ball.
- See how many balls go into the pocket.
- When you finished your turn now, it’s the turn of your friend. Let him make the shot.
- When he finished taking you to turn and repeat the same process till you finish your group balls as solid or stripped.
- When you finished all balls now, you have to hit on the 8-ball to win the game.
The “person” who ended the game with pocketing 8-ball after pocketing all of his balls will be the winner.
Read More: How to Play Darts on iMessage
How do you play pigeon pool?
Game pigeon providing 8-ball pool on game pigeon 14 pack games. By opening iMessage and launching a game pigeon on it, you can easily start playing pigeon pool.
- Break the rack: Start this game by breaking the rack, which contains solid and striped balls and a black 8-ball. Hit the rack with a white ball. As a result, the rack will break, and all balls will spread on the table some drop inside the pockets.
- Keep trying until you fail to pocket a ball.
- Pocket all balls of your group.
- Call your shots.
Did messenger get rid of games?
Nowadays, Facebook announced to remove messenger mini-games launched as playable games in the news feed.
Conclusion
To conclude this topic, Facebook messenger serves its user’s “digital” interface, which they use to communicate and play the game. Throughout this article, I explained how to play pool on messenger, helping you play the 8-pool game.
Mark is a Bloomberg BusinessWeek-based digital entrepreneur, blogger, and table tennis enthusiast. He is a former professional table tennis player with the career-best USATT ranking of 2689. He is also an ITTF Level 3 certified coach and conducts weekend coaching programs in and around the New York area. Mark is also a pool player by passion. He was first introduced to the game of pool at a very early age by his granddad. He had a natural knack for the game and quickly learned the ropes, and by the time he was 15, he was already participating in local leagues. He aims to make it into the APA league someday! Mark started his own blog by starting Indoor Games Zone, where he loves to share his years of experience with the audience. He covers ping pong, pool, air hockey, shuffleboard, and foosball.
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