Roulete

Pascal’s Contributions
The exciting casino game roulete dates back as far as the 18th century. Meaning “little wheel” in French, roulete was invented in France before it quickly spread throughout Europe due to its popularity. You may remember learning about Pascal’s triangle in school, created by the esteemed French mathematician Blaise Pascal. During the 1600’s, he made significant contributions to probability theory and projective geometry in mathematics, and the Pascal triangle was later named after him. He is responsible for some of the first forms of roulete. As he pursued his efforts to find a perpetual motion machine in the 1600’s, he created a type of roulete wheel that we still use today.

The Legend
The wheel was used to play roulete in Paris during the early 18th century, possibly earlier throughout the late 1700’s. As legend has it, two Frenchman by the names of Francois and Louis Blanc established some of the first casinos in Monte Carlo after they introduced a wheel with a single zero on. This single zero gave the wheel a total of 37 numbers, 0-36. They were thought to have made a deal with the devil in order to find out the secrets of the game of roulete. This legend derived from the fact that adding up numbers 1-36 gives you a sum of 666, widely considered to be the number of the beast. While the legend may or may not be true, the story is still told today to carry on the supernatural history associated with the game.