Roulette is a casino game that is based on the Italian game Biribi and is named from the French word for “little wheel.” In the game, players can bet on a single number, a collection of numbers, the colors red and black, whether the number is odd or even, or whether the numbers are high (19″36) or low (1″18).

To discover the winning number, a croupier spins a wheel one way and then spins a ball the other way down a slanted circular track running around the wheel’s outer edge. The ball eventually loses speed and falls into the wheel, landing in one of three colored and numbered pockets: 37 (single zero French/European style roulette), 38 (double-zero American style roulette), or 39 (triple zero “Sands Roulette”). Following that, the winnings are dispersed to all bettors who have placed a winning wager.

In the 18th century, the first form of roulette was created in France. Many historians believe that in his search for a perpetual motion machine in the 17th century, Blaise Pascal developed a primitive kind of roulette. The roulette wheel is a hybrid of a 1720 gambling wheel and the Italian game Biribi.

The game has been played in its current form in Paris since 1796. In the French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, published in 1796, a roulette wheel is depicted in the Palais Royal in Paris, which is an early depiction of the roulette game in its current form. The housing pockets were described as having “exactly two places designated for the bank, from which it derives its solitary mathematical advantage.” “Two betting squares containing the bank’s two numbers, zero and double zero,” the layout is characterized as. The book was published in the year 1801. New France (Québec) established laws forbidding “dice, hoca, faro, and roulette” in 1758, which contained a reference to a game of the same name.

Roulette wheels at Parisian casinos in the late 1790s had red for the single zero and black for the double zero. To avoid confusion, the color green was chosen for the zeros on roulette wheels starting in the 1800s.

In Bad Homburg, Germany, in 1843, brothers François and Louis Blanc invented the single 0 type roulette wheel to compete with other casinos that provided the conventional wheel with single and double zero house pockets.

On certain early American roulette wheels, there were numbers 1 through 28, as well as a single zero, a double zero, and an American Eagle. The Eagle machine was a symbol of American liberty, yet it was a house slot that provided the casino an extra edge. The design gradually disappeared, leaving simply numbered spaces on the wheel.

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