Roulette is a casino and gambling game (Roulette is a French word meaning "small wheel"). A croupier turns a round roulette wheel which has 37 or 38 separately numbered pockets in which a ball must land. The main pockets are numbered from 1 to 36 and change between red and black, with number 1 being red. In addition there is a pocket numbered 0 of green color. In most roulette wheels in the United States but not in Europe, there is a second zero compartment marked 00, also colored green.


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If a player bets on a single number and wins, the pay is 35 to 1. This means the bet is multiplied by 35, while also the bet is returned, in total it is multiplied by 36. (In a lottery one would say 'the prize is 36 times the cost of the ticket', because in a lottery the cost of the ticket is not returned additionally.)



There is a common misconception that the green numbers are "house numbers" and that by betting on them one "gains the house edge." In fact, it is true that the house's advantage comes from the existence of the green numbers (a game without them would be statistically fair) however they are no more or less likely to come up than any other number.


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History of Roulette

The first form of roulette was first devised in 17th century France, by the mathematician Blaise Pascal, supposedly inspired by his fascination with perpetual-motion devices. Later on, in 1842, fellow Frenchmen Francois and Louis Blanc added the "0" to the roulette wheel in order to increase house odds. Roulette was brought into the U.S. in the early 1800s, and again in order to increase house odds the second zero, "00", was introduced - although in some forms of early American roulette the double-zero was replaced by the American Eagle. In the 1800s, roulette spread all over both Europe and the U.S., becoming the most famous and one of the most popular casino games. It is sometimes said that roulette is the "King of Casino Games", originally mostly because it was associated with the glamour of the casinos in Monte Carlo (it was Francois Blanc who actually established the first casinos there).



A legend tells about Francois Blanc, who supposedly bargained with the devil to obtain the secrets of roulette. The legend is based on the fact that if you add up all the numbers on the roulette wheel (from 1 to 36), the resu