It featured numbers from 1-28, double zero and an additional pocket adorned with an eagle symbol. They came up with a draft version in the process.
Then nascent casino industry and gamblers alike agreed that the house edge with the European Roulette wheels is too thin. At the beginning of the 19 th century, European settlers in Louisiana brought the game to American soil. Roulette: The American Wayġ842 marks the moment when the first 0 was added to Pascal’s wheel design. The search for a device that moves infinitely without an external energy source gave birth to one of the most popular casino games. Most agree that Blaise Pascal invented the Roulette accidentally while looking for the perpetual motion machine. Although researchers have seemingly discovered ancestors of Roulette back in Ancient Greece and Rome, France takes the credit for it.