🎰 Free European Roulette — Single Zero, Real Payouts
The full European table with fake chips: straight numbers at 35:1, splits of the board into red/black, odd/even, highs and lows at 1:1, dozens and columns at 2:1.
Fake credits only. Pick a chip, click any cell to place it — click again to stack. Chips are deducted as you place them and refunded by Undo/Clear.
How to Play Roulette for Free
One green zero, 2.7% house edge on every bet — exactly like the real felt.
This is a complete free roulette table — the European single-zero layout, playable with fake money and paying the same odds as any licensed casino. Select a chip size, click cells to build your bets, and press Spin. You can stack chips on any combination: a straight number pays 35:1, the even-money fields (red/black, odd/even, 1–18/19–36) pay 1:1, and the dozens and columns pay 2:1. When the ball settles, every bet is settled independently, so covering the board with overlapping wagers is allowed — and exactly as unprofitable as it is in Monte Carlo.
Why insist on the European wheel? Because the zero count is the entire game. With numbers 0–36, a straight bet wins one time in 37 but pays as if the wheel had 36 pockets — that missing pocket is the house's 2.7%. The American wheel adds a double zero and nearly doubles the edge to 5.26% while paying identical odds, which is why no player who understands the maths ever chooses it voluntarily. Everything here — every bet type, every payout — resolves to the same expected return of 97.3%.
Use the fake chips to test the folklore. Bet red and double after every loss (the Martingale) and watch how a routine streak of six blacks — it happens about once per 106 spins, and you will play more than that — demands a 64× chip. Try the "covering" systems that stake 35 numbers at once and feel how winning almost every spin still bleeds the balance. And notice the zero doing its quiet work: when it lands, every red/black, odd/even and high/low chip on the felt goes to the house at once. That one green pocket built most of a city, and here it will only cost you pixels to learn why.
The Real Roulette Maths
| Bet | Numbers covered | Win chance | Pays | Expected return |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straight | 1 | 1/37 = 2.70% | 35:1 | 36/37 = 0.973 |
| Red / Black | 18 | 18/37 = 48.6% | 1:1 | 36/37 = 0.973 |
| Odd / Even | 18 | 48.6% | 1:1 | 0.973 |
| 1–18 / 19–36 | 18 | 48.6% | 1:1 | 0.973 |
| Dozen | 12 | 12/37 = 32.4% | 2:1 | 0.973 |
| Column | 12 | 32.4% | 2:1 | 0.973 |
Every single bet on the board returns 36/37 of its stake in expectation — a uniform 2.70% edge. Combining bets combines their costs: there is no arrangement of chips, however clever, whose blended edge differs from 2.70%. Roulette is unusual among casino games in offering not one good bet, but a table of identically-priced ones.
Roulette FAQ
Is this European or American roulette?
European — one green zero, numbers 0–36, house edge 2.70%. We deliberately did not build the American double-zero wheel, whose 5.26% edge is simply a worse price for the identical game.
What happens to outside bets when zero hits?
They lose. Red/black, odd/even, highs/lows and the dozens all pay nothing on zero — that is precisely how the 2.7% edge is collected. Only a chip on the zero itself wins, at 35:1.
Can I place multiple bets on one spin?
Yes — stack chips anywhere in any combination, and each bet settles independently. Note that combined bets don't reduce the edge: every chip pays its own 2.7% toll regardless of its neighbours.
Do roulette systems like Martingale work?
No system rearranges 36/37 into more than 1. Martingale converts a small steady loss into occasional catastrophic ones; D'Alembert and Fibonacci do the same more slowly. Test them here with fake chips — it is much cheaper than the traditional method.