Roulette is an exciting casino game that can be played by one or more players. Each player places chips on the betting table and waits for the dealer to announce “No more bets.”
Bets fall into two main groups, inside bets and outside bets. Each type offers different risk levels and payout odds.
Origin
It is difficult to say precisely when and where roulette originated. But it is clear that as European settlers moved to America, they brought with them many of their favorite gambling games and elements. This included the wheel and the numbered pockets for banked bets.
Structurally, roulette hybridizes two strands of gambling traditions: the wheel-and-ball banking game and the number-betting lottery. Its circular form evokes the medieval “Wheel of Fortune” turned by Fortuna to decide human fates. Its duality—mathematically precise yet existentially random—explains much of its cultural allure.
The first true version of roullete emerged in Paris during the early 1800s. It quickly gained popularity because of its ease to learn and dramatic swings of fortune, which cemented it as the aristocrat among chance games, as opposed to dice and card games.