A game of chance played on a table with a spinning wheel that contains 37 or 38 numbered pockets. The ball lands in one of these pockets to determine the winning number. Each player places a bet. These bets can include inside bets or outside bets.
The dealer (or croupier) will then give you coloured chips worth the denomination you’ve chosen. Then place your bets on the table map, until the croupier announces “no more bets”.
Origins
Roulette is one of the oldest casino games in existence and has a long history. In its earliest form, the game was played by wealthy members of French society who would gather in gilded gambling parlors and place bets on a rotating wheel that contained divisions for the numbers 0 through 36.
Modern roulette was likely invented in 1655 by the famous French mathematician Blaise Pascal, who got the idea during a stay at the Port-Royal-des-Champs monastery while working on his quest to create a perpetual motion machine. Some historians believe that the game may have been derived from a more primitive carnival game that included a spinning wheel and was often found at traveling circus shows in the 1500’s. The game also may have been influenced by the Italian Lotto Reale, which used a similar system of betting.