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.