Roulette is French for "small wheel" and today's game layout was developed by Francois and Louis Blanc in the early 1800s. Roulette is still very popular in European casinos and is a simple and exciting game to play. Roulette is a game with a spinning wheel where you place bets on which block the ball will fall in. In American casinos the Roulette spinning wheel has 38 blocks but the French version has 37 blocks. Both Roulette wheels however are shaped like a bowl with a small ivory ball being pushed in the opposite direction. Roulette