Question 1

How do you play American Roulette?

Accepted Answer

Put chips anywhere on the layout, press Spin, and the ball decides. You can bet a single number at 35 to 1, a group of two, three, four or six, or one of the outside bets — red or black, odd or even, high or low, a dozen or a column. Bets that cover more numbers pay less; every one of them carries the same house edge except one, which is flagged below.

Question 2

Is this free? Do I need an account?

Accepted Answer

Free, and there is no account. The chips are play money, they cost nothing, and you can top up as often as you like. Nothing is for sale at any point.

Question 3

How many numbers are on the wheel?

Accepted Answer

38 — the numbers 1 to 36 plus 0 and 00. The 1 to 36 alternate red and black; the zeroes are green.

Question 4

What is the house edge?

Accepted Answer

5.26% on every bet except one. The second zero is doing all of that work: the wheel pays the same odds as a European one but has an extra pocket to lose to. The five-number bet 0-00-1-2-3 is worse still at 7.89%, and is the only bet on the table we would tell you to avoid.

Question 5

How much does a straight-up number pay?

Accepted Answer

35 to 1. Put one chip on 17, and if the ball lands there you get 36 back — your chip and 35 more. The general rule is that a bet covering k numbers pays 36/k − 1, which gives 17 to 1 on a split, 11 to 1 on a street, 8 to 1 on a corner, 5 to 1 on a six line, 2 to 1 on a dozen and 1 to 1 on red. The only bet that breaks that rule is the five-number 0-00-1-2-3, which pays 6 to 1 where the formula says 6.2 — and that missing fifth of a chip is its whole extra edge.

Question 6

Can I bet on splits, corners and streets here?

Accepted Answer

Yes — the entire layout is live, not just the numbers. Click the line between two numbers for a split, the point where four meet for a corner, the rail below a column of three for a street, and the point between two of those for a six line. That sounds obvious and it is the single most common thing missing from free roulette games; a table that only takes single numbers is not really roulette.

Question 7

Is the wheel rigged? Does it know what I bet?

Accepted Answer

It cannot. Every spin of a session comes from a deal number shown in the "Is this rigged?" panel, and the whole sequence is fixed before you place a chip — the same number always produces the same pockets in the same order on any device. The panel shows you the next five spins in advance so you can check. There is also nothing to gain: no accounts, nothing sold, chips that cost nothing.

Question 8

Does the wheel remember the last spins?

Accepted Answer

No, and this is the one thing worth being blunt about. Each spin is independent. Red coming up eight times in a row does not make black any more likely, and a number that has not appeared in 200 spins is not "due". We show the history strip and hot and cold numbers because people want them, not because they predict anything.

Question 9

What happens when the ball lands in zero?

Accepted Answer

Every outside bet loses — red, black, odd, even, high, low, the dozens and the columns. The same goes for 00. Only chips on or touching the zero pay. Zero is not an even number for betting purposes, whatever arithmetic says.

Question 10

What are called bets, and are they offered here?

Accepted Answer

Called bets are French bets on whole arcs of the wheel — Voisins du Zéro, Tiers du Cylindre, Orphelins and Jeu Zéro. They are arcs of the *single-zero* wheel and cannot be placed on this one, which is why real double-zero tables do not have a racetrack either. Play European or French Roulette here for those.

Question 11

What is a neighbours bet?

Accepted Answer

A straight-up bet on a number and the pockets either side of it on the wheel — not on the layout. It is a single-zero table feature; the European and French tables here offer it with a spread of one, two or three either side.

Question 12

What is the difference between European and American roulette?

Accepted Answer

One pocket. The American wheel adds a 00, which takes it from 37 pockets to 38 while paying exactly the same odds — so the house edge goes from 2.70% to 5.26%, nearly double, for a game that looks and plays identically. If you have a choice, and here you do, take the single zero.

Question 13

What is La Partage?

Accepted Answer

A French rule: when the ball lands in zero, you lose only half of an even-money bet instead of all of it. That exactly halves the house edge on red, black, odd, even, high and low, from 2.70% to 1.35% — the best odds available anywhere in roulette. Our French table has it.

Question 14

Is En Prison the same as La Partage?

Accepted Answer

No, and almost every source says they are both 1.35%. They are not. La Partage returns half your stake immediately, for exactly 1.3514%. En Prison holds the whole stake and rides it on the next spin, where it can only win its own money back — never a profit — and can lose again. That works out at 19/1369, or 1.3879%. La Partage is strictly the better rule, by about 0.04 points.

Question 15

Which roulette bet has the best odds?

Accepted Answer

All of them equally, at 5.26% — except the five-number 0-00-1-2-3 at 7.89%, which is worse. The genuinely better answer is to play the European or French wheel instead.

Question 16

Do betting systems like the Martingale work?

Accepted Answer

No. Doubling after a loss wins small amounts often and loses everything occasionally, and the two exactly cancel — the house edge is per spin and no ordering of bets changes it. What a Martingale really buys is a change in the *shape* of your results, not their average. The table limit is what stops it, and there is one here for exactly that reason.

Question 17

What are the table limits?

Accepted Answer

Minimum 1 chip, maximum 500 on an outside bet. Inside bets are capped by what they pay rather than by the stake — a straight up tops out at 142 chips, because the table's real limit is on the payout, not the bet. That is how a real table works, and it is why you cannot put the maximum on one number.

Question 18

How many chips do I start with?

Accepted Answer

A thousand, shared with the other casino games on the site. If you run out, press Add chips — instant, free, unlimited, no ad and no wait.

Question 19

Can I repeat my last bet?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Repeat puts the whole previous layout back down, Double doubles everything on the table, Undo lifts the last chip and Clear takes them all off. There are keyboard shortcuts for all four: R, D, U and C, with space to spin.

Question 20

Can I make the wheel spin faster?

Accepted Answer

Yes — Normal, Fast or Turbo in the bar above the table. Nobody has ever complained that a roulette wheel spun too fast; the complaints are all the other way, so the default is already brisk and Turbo is close to instant.

Question 21

What is the Snake bet?

Accepted Answer

A zig-zag of twelve red numbers — 1, 5, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 23, 27, 30, 32, 34 — paid like a dozen at 2 to 1. It is not on every layout, but it is on this one.

Question 22

Can I play on a phone?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The layout reflows and the hit targets for splits and corners stay large enough to hit with a thumb, which is the part most mobile roulette gets wrong.

Question 23

Are my chips and statistics saved?

Accepted Answer

In this browser, yes — the balance is shared across the casino games here, so a good roulette session is chips you can take to the blackjack table. There is no account holding it anywhere, so clearing your browser data clears it.