Roulette

This is European Roulette: one wheel of thirty-seven pockets, numbered 1 to 36 in alternating red and black, plus a single green 0. There is no double zero. Pick a chip, put it somewhere on the betting table, and press Spin.

The two halves of the game sit side by side. The wheel is where the result happens — the ball rides the outer track, drops, and settles into one pocket. The betting table is where you say what you think of that: the numbers laid out in three columns of twelve, with the outside boxes for colour, parity and halves around the edge. You are betting on the wheel; you are doing it on the table.

You start with 1,000 virtual chips in denominations of 1, 5, 25 and 100, and you can have up to 500 on the table at once. Undo lifts your last chip, Clear takes everything back, and Repeat puts your previous pattern back down when the table is empty. When you run out, Refill gives you another 1,000, free and immediately, as many times as you like.

A payout of 35 to 1 is profit, not the total returned. Put 5 chips on a single number and win, and you receive 175 chips of profit plus your original 5 back — 180 chips in hand, where you had staked 5. The quoted figure never includes the stake.

The same reading applies everywhere: a Corner at 8 to 1 turns 5 chips into 40 profit plus the 5 returned, and Red at 1 to 1 turns 5 into 5 profit plus the 5 returned. Every payout on this table is the fair price for the count of numbers the bet covers — 36 ÷ covered, less one.

If the ball lands in 0, every outside bet loses: red, black, odd, even, 1–18, 19–36, all three dozens and all three columns. Zero is green, it is not odd, and it is not in the first dozen.

Only bets that actually name zero can win on it — a straight on 0, the splits 0-1, 0-2 and 0-3, the two trios 0-1-2 and 0-2-3, and First Four. This table uses neither La Partage nor En Prison, so a losing outside bet on zero is simply lost.

All thirty-seven pockets are equally likely on every spin, and the wheel has no memory. Recent results do not change the probability of the next one. A number that has just come up three times is exactly as likely as any other; a number that has not appeared all session is not due, because nothing is ever due.

That is why the recent-results strip here is just a list. It is shown because a real table shows one, and it is deliberately not labelled hot, cold or overdue — those readings are the oldest mistake in the game.

The single zero is where the arithmetic lives. Each bet covers its numbers at fair odds against 36, while the wheel has 37 pockets, so the house edge on every bet is exactly 1/37 ≈ 2.70%. It is the same on a straight as on red, which is worth knowing precisely because it means no bet on the table is cleverer than another — the size of your bet changes how much your chips swing about, not your chances.