Roulette ball

"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 numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18).

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 thirty-seven (single-zero, French or European style roulette) or thirty-eight (double-zero, American style roulette) or thirty-nine (triple-zero, "Sands Roulette")[1] colored 🍌 and numbered pockets on the wheel. The winnings are then paid to anyone who has placed a successful bet.

A roleta é um jogo de azar muito comum 🔑 em casinos.

O termo deriva do francês roulette, que significa "roda pequena".

O uso da roleta como elemento de jogo de azar, 🔑 em configurações distintas da atual, não está documentado na entrada da Idade Média.

É de suspeitar que a pass roulette referência mais 🔑 antiga seja a chamada "Roda da Fortuna", conhecida ao longo de toda a história.