Five-pin billiards
![Five-pins table, showing the location of the pins.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Five-pins_table_layout2437.gif")
![A fairly easy three-rail bank shot on the castle.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Five-pins_3-rail_bank2437.gif")
![A challenging two-rail kick shot at the castle.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Five-pins_2-rail_kick2437.gif")
![A daring massé shot on the castle, from a snookered position. A kick shot would almost certainly be a higher-probability shot selection.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Five-pins_Massé2437.gif")
Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (Italian: [biliardo dei] cinque birilli; Spanish: [billar de] cinco quillas), is today usually a carom, but sometimes still a pocket, form of cue sport, popular especially in Italy and Argentina but also in some other parts of Latin America and Europe, with international, televised professional tournaments. The game is sometimes referred to as Italian five-pins or Italian billiards (Italian: biliardo all'italiana), or as italiana (in Italian and Spanish).