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Sign in to savethumb|Roulette ball thumb|upright|"Gwendolen at the roulette table" – 1910 illustration to George Eliot's [[Daniel Deronda]] Roulette (named after the French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi. In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the number is high or low.
Roulette is a casino game named after the French word for "little wheel," likely developed from an Italian game, in which players place bets on outcomes such as specific numbers, colors (red or black), or whether numbers are odd, even, high, or low. The game matters as a historically significant form of gambling that has been popular enough to inspire literary depictions and remains a standard fixture in casinos.
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- History
- Rules of play against a casino
- California roulette
- Roulette wheel number sequence
- Roulette table layout
- Types of bets
- Inside bets
- Outside bets
- Bet odds table
- House edge
- Mathematical model
- Simplified mathematical model
- Called (or call) bets or announced bets
- Voisins du zéro (''neighbors of zero'')
- Jeu zéro (''zero game'')
- Le tiers du cylindre (''third of the wheel'')
- Orphelins (''orphans'')
- ... and the neighbors
- Final bets
- Full completes/maximums
- Betting strategies and tactics
- Prediction methods
- Specific betting systems
- Types of betting system
- Reverse Martingale system
- Labouchère system
- D'Alembert system
- Other systems
- Notable winnings
- See also
- Notes
- External links
thumb|Roulette ball thumb|upright|"Gwendolen at the roulette table" – 1910 illustration to George Eliot's [[Daniel Deronda]] Roulette (named after the French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi. In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the number is high or low.
To determine the winning number, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually loses momentum, passes through an area of deflectors, and falls onto the wheel and into one of the colored and numbered pockets on the wheel. The winnings are then paid to anyone who has placed a successful bet.