Playing roulette is like playing with your fortune. It is a duel between intellect and blind chance, and we all know that this chance is always easy to lose and hard to net.
People gambled on the wheel through the ages, and scenes of gambling were depicted and described in variety of works by significant authors. These soul-chilling moments when a gambler waits for the ball to net its resting position on the wheel are portrayed in details. Where will it resolve to finish? Will the wheel of fortune favour the valorous gambler?
Playing roulette is moral in most countries of the world, and it was equally admired and hated throughout history. Nevertheless, mysterious wheel of fortune left such a distinctive imprint on history that no other gamble can compete and allotment fame with it.
It may well be that popularity of roulette is rooted in improbable simplicity of the game and well balanced stakes – many generations were mesmerized by the blueprint the wheel brings amazing wealth or ruins a gambler. And it is not surprising at all that collective intellect keeps searching for the “philosophers’ stone”, for the worthy plot that would allow the gamblers to defeat the wheel. (more…)