A background article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100979.

I would love to play this. It looks like it has just the right amount of frustration mixed with a clever and simple bank shot setup to keep me playing.

The pocket ("hole"?) must've been stolen from a carnival game or something :).

This reminds me of Cowboy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_pool)

The table seems pretty small, anyone know the dimensions?

I don't see the "geeky" aspect of it. It reminds me of golf + pool.. neither of which are geeky.

They should have made it a real ellipse.

In what sense? I was under the assumption that they had.

Isn't it a perfect circle ?

No, it has two foci—that's the point of the table. One focus is a hole, so a ball hit from the other focus will always bounce towards the hole. That's the diagram at the top of the page.

Ha, I thought it was a pool term...