The roulette cylinder was introduced in a primitive form, in the 17th century, by Blaise Pascal, a French physicist, philosopher 🗝 and inventor, in his quest to create for a perpetual motion machine. The game of roulette as we know it 🗝 today started being played a century later, around 1760, in France.

For the untrained eye, there is no difference between the 🗝 different types of roulette wheels, but at a closer look, the differences become self-evident. One of the first decisions that 🗝 roulette players need to make is whether to spin a European or American roulette, as these are the two main 🗝 types of roulette wheels. One big difference between them is that the American version has two zeroes on the cylinder, 🗝 which leads to a bigger advantage for the casino. This should have a deterring effect on prospective players, but there 🗝 are still plenty who choose this type of wheel, mainly because in some countries like the USA there are no 🗝 alternatives, as the vast majority of casinos houses only double zero wheels. Interestingly the first roulette introduced in France had 🗝 two zeros, but that changed when the German casinos wanted to compete and introduced the single zero roulette to attract 🗝 more clients.

Please note that except the different types of wheels there are also different types of tables and rules variations.

AMERICAN 🗝 ROULETTE

There are a total of 38 pockets on the American roulette wheel, ranging from 0 to 36, plus the additional 🗝 00 number. 18 of these pockets are red, the other 18 are black while the two slots featuring 0 and 🗝 00 are green. Speaking of these slots, they are placed at the opposite side of the cylinder, just like consecutive 🗝 numbers while overall there are no adjacent numbers of the same color. This is how the counterclockwise sequence of numbers 🗝 looks like on the American roulette wheel: 0, 2, 14, 35, 23, 4, 16, 33, 21, 6, 18, 31, 19, 🗝 8, 12, 29, 25, 10, 27, 00, 1, 13, 36, 24, 3, 15, 34, 22, 5, 17, 32, 20, 7, 🗝 11, 30, 26, 9, 28.