Origins of the game
    Roulette has been played since the eighteenth century, and became very fashionable towards the end of the nineteenth, when the casino at Monte Carlo began to flourish and receive patronage from the royal families of Europe. The modern game does, however, have predecessors, from which it is probably derived.

Basic rules and objectives
    Roulette is a gambling game of chance, in which the winning and losing is decided by a ball falling into a numbered pocket on a wheel that spins in one direction while the ball rolls in the other. Although no skill is required to play it, it has a fascination for games players with a liking for arithmetic, because of the ingenuity of the systems that gamblers have invented for years in an effort to make their fortunes. The search for an infallible system continues despite periodic and mistaken claims that it has been found. Roulette is primarily a casino game, but home sets are marketed widely, and it is possible to hire full-size wheels and tables. Equipment

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