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Roulette History
Roulette traces its roots to the invention in England in about 1720 of the horizontal gambling wheel for a game called roly poly, which featured white and black slots, but no numbers. The first modern roulette wheels were in use in Paris by 1796.
Until the late 1800s, roulette wheels in the United States featured 31 numbers, plus 0, 00, and an American Eagle symbol that acted as a third 0.
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Numbers on the wheel are arranged so that red alternates with black, odd alternates with even, and consecutive numbers of the same color add up to 37 -- most of the time. A perfect arrangement is impossible, because the 18 even numbers add up to 342, but the odd numbers total only 324. So two 37 totals -- 9 (red) plus 28 (black), and 10 (black) plus 27 (red) -- include one red and one black number.
The 0, with its green background, has black numbers (2 and 28) on either side, and the 00, also on green, has red numbers (1 and 27) on either side. Using zero as a starting point on either side, the numbers alternate black-red until they reach zero.
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