Roulette and wheel games

thumb|Roulette ball thumb|upright|"Gwendolen at the roulette table" – 1910 illustration to George Eliot's [[Daniel Deronda]] Roulette (named after the French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi. In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the number is high or low.

risk taking game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against a person and pulls the trigger

American television game show

betting strategy

Russian game show

British gambler (1830–1892)

Straperlo was a scheme which originated in the Netherlands in the 1930s and was then introduced in Spain. In essence it was a fraudulent roulette which could be controlled electrically with the push of a button. The ensuing scandal was one of the several causes of the fall of the Republican government and the polarization of the parliament, which finally led to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939).

upright=1.3|thumb|An older version of the game with four "bowls" on the outside. Some modern versions may have eight. Bauernroulette is a game that was apparently invented in Germany, where several companies sell it. The name Bauernroulette indicates it is a "poor man's roulette", since Bauer is German for peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer.

game of chance often played in casinos

gambling game similar to roulette

Spanish version of the TV game show Wheel of Fortune