where it comes from

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Roulette is a casino game named after a French word meaning little wheel. In the game, players choose where to place bets on either a single number or a many of the numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even.

To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spins the wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the circumference of the wheel. The ball will loses momentum after time and falls on to the wheel and into one of 37 in French/European roulette, but in American roulette 38 colored and numbered pockets on the wheel.

The first form of roulette was from the 18th century France.In in the 17th century, the search for a perpetual motion machine.now called the roulette wheel is believed to be a fusion of the English wheel games of Roly-Poly, Reiner, Ace of Hearts, and E.O..The Italian board games of Hoca and Biribi, and "Roulette" from an already existing French board game that had that name.