The roulette cylinder was introduced in a primitive form, in the 17th century, by Blaise Pascal, a French physicist, philosopher 8️⃣ and inventor, in his quest to create for a perpetual motion machine. The game of roulette as we know it 8️⃣ today started being played a century later, around 1760, in France.

For the untrained eye, there is no difference between the 8️⃣ different types of roulette wheels, but at a closer look, the differences become self-evident. One of the first decisions that 8️⃣ roulette players need to make is whether to spin a European or American roulette, as these are the two main 8️⃣ types of roulette wheels. One big difference between them is that the American version has two zeroes on the cylinder, 8️⃣ which leads to a bigger advantage for the casino. This should have a deterring effect on prospective players, but there 8️⃣ are still plenty who choose this type of wheel, mainly because in some countries like the USA there are no 8️⃣ alternatives, as the vast majority of casinos houses only double zero wheels. Interestingly the first roulette introduced in France had 8️⃣ two zeros, but that changed when the German casinos wanted to compete and introduced the single zero roulette to attract 8️⃣ more clients.

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

AMERICAN 8️⃣ ROULETTE

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