Gambling Wheel

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What do you get when you combine the betting system of blackjack with the wheels of roulette? The Money Wheel!

This game is quite simple. All you have to do is spin the wheel and then guess where the wheel will land. It’s somewhat similar to roulette in this way. The only difference is that the betting system is much more similar to blackjack. The Money Wheel is definitely a fun new addition to many online casinos, and will give you an interesting and new way to gamble.

If you’ve heard all the fuss about this game, but haven’t tried it yet, you really don’t know what you’re missing out on.

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How the Game Works

The Money Wheel is similar to a roulette wheel; however, the wedges are separated so that some symbols take up more wedges than others. For example, there are more wedges with a ‘1’ sign on them than a ‘3’ sign on them. Similarly, there’s more signs with a ‘3’ on them than a ‘5’ on them. You have 7 options to choose from. They include:

  • a red dragon sign, which pays out 45 to 1 as there is only 1 red dragon wedge on the wheel
  • a golden lotus sign, which also pays out 45 to 1 as there is only 1 of them on the wheel
  • 20, which pays out 20 to 1
  • 10, which pays out 10 to 1
  • 5, which pays out 5 to 1
  • 3, which pays out 3 to 1
  • 1, which pays out 1 to 1

The odds are determined based on how often the signs or the numbers appear on the wheel. You can bet on as many positions as you’d like and you can bet as much as you’d like. If the wheel lands on the wedge that you’ve bet on, you will win the payout. If it lands on a wedge that you didn’t bet on, you will lose all of the bets that you’ve made.

How to Place a Bet

The betting table looks similar to a blackjack betting table with each position reserved for a sign. When playing Money Wheel for free and with real money, you can place a minimum bet of 1.00 credit or €1.00 on each position. Bets are capped at a maximum of 100.00 credits or €100.00. You have 5 different chips to play with. Their denominations include 1, 5, 10, 25 and 100. When betting real money on this game, the chips should state your currency.

Game Design and Odds

The Money Wheel is quite a beautiful table game to play. You’ll be taken to a standard blackjack or poker table with a huge wheel in the background. Once you’re comfortable with the bets you’ve made, just hit ‘Spin’, and the game will do everything for you. To make your life easier, there’s also a ‘Rebet’ option that will automatically make the same bets for you as your last spin.

The expected return to player (RTP) of the Money Wheel varies quite a bit. The minimum RTP is expected to be about 80.77% while the maximum RTP is expected to be about 92.31%. On average, the RTP should fall somewhere close to 88.46%. With these odds, hitting the jackpot won’t be easy.

Overall Verdict

The Money Wheel is a fairly simple game that doesn’t require a lot of thinking. All you have to do is place your bet and then spin the wheels. It’s mostly a game of luck. Still, many players seem to enjoy taking a spin on the Money Wheel

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Roulette, (from French: “small wheel”), gambling game in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel. It is played in casinos worldwide. Roulette is a banking game, and all bets are placed against the bank—that is, the house, or the proprietor of the game. As a big-time betting game, it has had its popularity superseded in the United States and the Caribbean islands by others, notably craps, blackjack, and poker.

Fanciful stories about the origin of roulette include its invention by the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, by a French monk, and by the Chinese, from whom it was supposedly transmitted to France by Dominican monks. In reality, roulette was derived in France in the early 18th century from the older games hoca and portique, and it is first mentioned under its current name in 1716 in Bordeaux. Following several modifications, roulette achieved its present layout and wheel structure about 1790, after which it rapidly gained status as the leading game in the casinos and gambling houses of Europe. During the years 1836 to 1933, roulette was banned in France.

Equipment

The roulette table is composed of two sections, the wheel itself and the betting layout, better known as the roulette layout. There are two styles of roulette tables. One has a single betting layout with the roulette wheel at one end, and the other has two layouts with the wheel in the centre. The wheel spins horizontally.

Heading the layout design, which is printed on green baize, is a space containing the figure 0 (European style) or the figures 0 and 00 (American style, although such wheels were used also in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries). The main portion of the design is composed of 36 consecutively numbered rectangular spaces, alternately coloured red and black and arranged in three columns of 12 spaces each, beginning with 1 at the top and concluding with 36 at the bottom. Directly below the numbers are three blank spaces (on some layouts these are marked “2 to 1” and are located on the players’ side of the table). On either side of these or along one side of the columns are rectangular spaces marked “1st 12,” “2nd 12,” and “3rd 12” on American-style layouts. On European-style layouts these terms are “12p” (première), “12m” (milieu), and “12d” (dernière douzaine). Six more spaces are marked “red” (rouge), “black” (noir), “even” (pair), “odd” (impair), “1–18” (low, or manque), and “19–36” (high, or passe).

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The roulette wheel consists of a solid wooden disk slightly convex in shape. Around its rim are metal partitions known as separators or frets, and the compartments or pockets between these are called canoes by roulette croupiers. Thirty-six of these compartments, painted alternately red and black, are numbered nonconsecutively from 1 to 36. On European-style wheels a 37th compartment, painted green, carries the sign 0, and on American wheels two green compartments on opposite sides of the wheel carry the signs 0 and 00. The wheel, its spindle perfectly balanced, spins smoothly in an almost frictionless manner.

Gambling

The standard roulette table employs up to 10 sets of wheel checks (usually called chips). Each set is differently coloured; each traditionally consists of 300 chips; and there is one set for each player. The chips usually have a single basic value, although some casinos also sell chips of lesser value. The colour of the chips indicates the player, not the value of the chips. If a player wishes to buy chips of slightly higher value, the croupier places a marker indicating that value on top of the table’s stack of chips of the colour corresponding to the chips purchased. Most casinos also have high-value chips that can be wagered at any gaming table. Unlike roulette chips, these have their numbered values printed on them.

Bets

It is possible to place the following bets in roulette: (1) straight, or single-number (en plein), in which the chips are placed squarely on one number of the layout, including 0 (and also 00 on American layouts), so that the chips do not touch any of the lines enclosing the number; a winning single-number bet pays 35 to 1 (for each unit bet, a winning player receives his original bet and 35 matching units); (2) split, or 2-number (à cheval), in which the chips are placed on any line separating any two numbers; if either wins, payoff odds are 17 to 1; (3) street, or 3-number (transversale pleine), in which the chips are placed on the outside line of the layout, betting the three numbers opposite the chips; payoff odds on any of the three numbers are 11 to 1; (4) square, quarter, corner, or 4-number (en carré), in which the chips are placed on the intersection of the lines between any four numbers; payoff odds are 8 to 1; (5) line, or 6-number (sixaine or transversale six), in which the chips are placed on the intersection of the sideline and a line between two “streets”; payoff odds are 5 to 1; (6) column (colonne), or 12-number, in which the chips are placed on one of the three blank spaces (some layouts have three squares, marked “1st,” “2nd,” and “3rd”) at the bottom of the layout, thus betting the 12 numbers above the space; payoff odds are 2 to 1; (7) dozens (douzaine), or 12-number, in which the chips are placed on one of the spaces of the layout marked “12,” betting the numbers 1–12, 13–24, or 25–36; payoff odds are 2 to 1; (8) low-number or high-number, in which the chips are placed on the layout space marked “1–18” (manque) or on the space marked “19–36” (passe); payoff is even money; (9) black or red, in which the chips are placed on a space of the layout marked “black” (noir) or on a space marked “red” (rouge; some layouts have a large black or red diamond-shaped design instead of the words); payoff is even money; (10) odd-number or even-number, in which the chips are placed on the space of the layout marked “odd” (impair) or on the space marked “even” (pair); payoff is even money.

On layouts with a single zero (European style), the 0 may be included in a 2-number bet with any adjoining number, in a 3-number bet with 1 and 2 or with 2 and 3, and in a 4-number bet with 1, 2, and 3 at the regular odds for these bets. With the American-style 0 and 00, a 5-number line bet also is possible, the player placing his chips on the corner intersection of the line separating the 1, 2, 3 from the 0 and 00, with payoff odds of 6 to 1.

The play

Gambling Wheel Spin

The game begins when one of the croupiers (dealers) in attendance calls for the players to make their bets, which they do by placing chips on the spaces of the layout on any number, group, or classification they hope will win.

The croupier usually starts the wheel spinning in a counterclockwise direction and then spins a small ivory or plastic ball onto the bowl’s back track in the opposite direction. Players may continue to place bets while the wheel and ball are in motion until the ball slows down and is about to drop off the back track, at which time one of the croupiers announces that no more bets may be made.

Gambling Wheel Parts

When the ball falls and comes to rest between any two metal partitions of the wheel, it marks the winning number (or a 0 or 00), the winning colour, and any other permitted bet that pertains to a winning number or symbol. The dealer immediately announces the winning number and its colour and places a special marker on the corresponding number on the layout. He first collects all losing bets, not disturbing the chips that are resting on winning spaces, and then pays off any winning bets.

Gambling Wheel Parts

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