How to play pool in Yahoo! Messenger

This article written based on Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 and now version 9.0 Beta published but this feature doesn't included yet

If you want to play without Yahoo! Pool sounds you must first disable it. Click on Messenger tab and chose Preferences > Alerts and Sounds > activate "Mute Yahoo! Games sounds in Messenger by default"

Playing Yahoo! Pool in Yahoo! Messenger is just for fun so your avatars wont show up and ratings will not change.

Since playing Yahoo! Pool in Messenger requires 2 persons i divided instrudictions to two part

Part 1 : How to invite a friend to play pool in Yahoo! Messenger ?

Login to Yahoo! Messenger, right click on a friend name who you want to play, click More Actions, click on Play a Game.

See the game Pool at the top of the list and click on "Invite Friend".

Now your friend got the invitation and must accept it to join you.

See the video Tutorial

Part 2 : What to do when got an invite to join the game ?

Jut wait to see this screen to play and hit on "Accept" ( sure if you want to play :) )

Click start to roll

See the video Tutorial