In October 1957, Walter Lindrum won a $100 bet from the Australian Test cricketer Keith Miller when he compiled a fifty break in Billiards in 30 seconds. Nothing unusual for a man of Lindrum's calibre except that the break was compiled on grass! Playing on the lawns of a suburban Melbourne house, using 6 jam tins as pockets, Lindrum proved Miller wrong when he said a player's skill depended on the surface on which he used to play and added "Even Lindrum would have difficulty playing Billiards on grass." Lindrum could not resist the challenge and after winning the bet passed on the winning to charity

"Snooker Plus" was the idea of Joe Davis and was seen during the News of the World tournament at Burroughs hall on October 26th, 1959. Davis felt that leading players needed a further goal once the magical 147 has been achieved and the introduction of the two new coloured balls to the game provided the opportunity to make these bigger breaks. The 2 new balls were Orange (8 points) and Purple (10 points). Consequently a break of 210 was possible. However with the positioning of the purple ball between the brown and the blue, a 210 break was never recorded. The highest break was 156 by Jackie Rea of Ireland

Playing Snooker at the Cherry Tree Hotel in St. Helens in 1983, John Parrott made a break of 93 in which he potted neither a black nor a pink

In his second round match with Murdo McLeod in 1982 Pro Players tournament, Willie Thorne made consecutive breaks of 94, 109 and 135 and yet lost the match by 5 frames to 4

Willie Thorne, already known as maximum man. But he must stand unique as the only person to have made 147 with both legs in plaster, after being involved in a go-karting accident in 1982

In 1983, Gary Miller and Stuart Alliston of Humberside took one hour thirteen minutes to complete one frame of snooker. They used potato as cue ball