Casino Player November 2022

10 Roulette SECRETS ABOUT

THERE’S MORE TO THE GAME THAN YOU MIGHT THINK

oulette is a fun and exciting game that’s fairly simple to play. Just pick a number and cross your fingers. But the obvious simplicity of the game hides an interesting and intricate design, and an unusual history. Here are 10 things that you might not know about roulette. R

1. Roulette supposedly was invented in France, but the spinning-wheel design was likely borrowed from English games. The first game that’s close to roulette appeared in England in 1720. It was called roly-poly.The contest had a wheel with forty alternating black and white spaces,and a spinning ball.You could bet on black or white.One slot was labeled“bar black.” Another was “bar white.”That was it, no numbers.There was no French record of roulette until 1758 when a cryptic reference was mentioned in a law published in New France (modern-day Quebec). Roulette means“little wheel” in French, but the law included no description of the game.

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