The history of the invention of roulette no less mysterious than the game itself. Version of the appearance of this popular gambling games are different. And if the author of this wonderful invention is credited to several individuals, the time and place can be called quite accurately - is 17-18 century. Conclusive evidence of the involvement of to create a roulette can be regarded as its name. The word «roulette» means "small wheel". Today, among the types of roulette, there are three main ones. This separation is due to the history of the origin of the game. Controversial name of its inventor, but the "route" of its distribution remains in all versions of roughly the same - the appearance in France, and then spread to and later the conquest.

In one version of roulette was invented French-born mathematician B. Pascal in the 17th century. According to legend, trying to invent a kind of "perpetual motion" in 1655, Pascal decided to create a perfectly balanced wheel, which would have never stopped, and inside of which would be constantly spinning ball. Came the failure - the wheel has stopped, the ball fell into one of the holes. Thus, humanity lost forever spinning wheel and got in return roulette - gambling , attracting and today millions of players in the casino. Someone familiar nobles saw amazing building, and soon a new game by guessing numbers, place the ball falls captured the attention of many gamblers.

For the same legend, a few decades playing the roulette wheel was modified brothers Blank, who decided to add a cell with zero (zero), which, of course, changed the casino revenues upward. In the evolution of roulette were different types of wheels and rules: in one version of the wheel had three cells and zero in the other wheel did not move, there were others. The modern equivalent of the roulette allegedly appeared only in 1765 in Paris. Next was a revolution and a ban on gambling. Second life roulette and gave the brothers Blank, opened a casino in Monte Carlo. Next roulette gradually spread throughout Europe in the 19th century reached. In the wheel added a new cell - double zero - which greatly reduces the chances of a player winning and increases profits of gambling houses. It makes a kind of American online roulette less popular among today's players. Some historians roulette argue that it was not invented from scratch. Its predecessors were a few games that are popular in France at that time, Hookah, even-odd, and others. Roulette allegedly combine some elements of these games and become a new method of obtaining large profits for the owners of the casino.