"rigged wheels (not difficult to find at that time) and betting opposite the largest bets. Whereas betting systems are essentially an attempt to beat the fact that a geometric series with initial value of 0.95 (American roulette) or 0.97 (European roulette) will inevitably over time tend to zero, engineers instead attempt to overcome the house edge through predicting the mechanical performance of the wheel, most notably by Joseph Jagger at Monte Carlo in 1873. These schemes work by determining that the ball is more likely to fall at certain numbers, and if sufficiently good will raise the return of the"
"a number, with the corresponding section being revealed to the players and the audience. The first player to have all four of their sections revealed progressed to the final round. The final game was a giant modified roulette wheel split into 36 alternately coloured sections (18 red and 18 black), awarding a £1 million prize if the player chose the correct colour. ""Red or Black?"" made its first millionaire in the first show, with bricklayer Nathan Hageman, from Reading, winning on red. The following night the second millionaire was made, with carer Kevin Cartwright also winning on red. Two further"
"to luck from here. First one to find the three letters spun the wheel. The jackpot on the big wheel was IR£250,000 (€317,434); the lowest cash prize was IR£10,000 (€12,697). There were many different coloured segments, each with its own prize value. When the wheel was spun, a ball bounced around, and when it finally came to a stop, the contestant won the amount the ball landed on, which was added to their final total. A spin was only valid if the wheel made three full revolutions, indicated by two red lights and then a green light on the third"
"wheel has twenty-five identical cups of five different colours: six red, six green, six yellow, six white and one blue. Of the six cups of identical colour one is numbered 4, three 3 and the last two 2, while the blue cup is numbered 24. The wheel may spin, or be statical. Surrounding the table there is a layout divided and painted with these five colours, where the players can place their wagers. To determine the winning colour, a croupier strikes, with a cue stick, an ivory ball into a rail, then the ball runs along the cloth, goes up"
"to show that there was any loophole. Roulette Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning ""little wheel"". In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18). To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually"
"Roulette Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning ""little wheel"". In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18). To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually loses momentum, passes through an area of"
"Big Six wheel The Big Six wheel, also known simply as The Big Six or Wheel of Fortune, is an unequal game of chance, played using a large vertical wheel that can be spun. Since 13 May 2002, it can be played legally in licensed casinos in the United Kingdom, under The Gaming Clubs (Bankers' Games) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (Statutory Instrument 2002/1130). The game is also known in casinos in the United States. The wheel is divided into a number of equal segments separated by spokes or pins. Each segment is associated with a number. The wheel is spun by"
"33, including 27 and 33 themselves. On a single-zero wheel, the series is 27-13-36-11-30-8-23-10-5-24-16-33. The full name (although very rarely used, most players refer to it as ""tiers"") for this bet is ""le tiers du cylindre"" (translated from French into English meaning one third of the wheel) because it covers 12 numbers (placed as 6 splits), which is as close to of the wheel as one can get. Very popular in British casinos, tiers bets outnumber voisins and orphelins bets by a massive margin. Six chips or multiples thereof are bet. One chip is placed on each of the following"
"an array of ten: five green for correct answers and five red for wrong answers. The green buttons correspond randomly to the outcomes ×1, ×2, ×3, ×4, and ×5; the red buttons correspond randomly to ÷2, ÷3, ÷4, and ÷5, and BUST. As the buttons are pressed, the neutral wedges on the wheel turn red or green and are annotated with the banked amount multiplied or divided by the applicable factor, or with BUST. Finally the player spins the wheel. Spinning the BUST wedge, if there is one, eliminates the player, and any other wedge produces the applicable amount of"
"re-drawn off-air under auditor scrutiny. These include: Introduced August 2004. Every Lotto ticket has a 16-digit Winning Wheel number (e.g. 123-45678901-20XX) which is the same as the ticket's serial number, except that the two digit checksum is replaced with XX for security reasons. Every draw, a serial number is drawn at random. The winner is awarded an all expenses paid trip to the studio in Auckland where they appear on the show and spin the eponymous wheel to determine their prize. The two-metre diameter wheel has 30 segments, each segment carrying either a cash prize ranging from $100,000 to $1"
"games. This variety is seldom seen in casinos, but frequently seen as a carnival game, or at a charity ""Monte Carlo night"" fund-raiser. A similar game, the ""Big Nine"" wheel, has five numbers on each segment, and also three special symbols, appearing on three spaces each, which pay 10:1 odds. A legal game in a licensed casino in the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand involves a wheel at least 1.5 metres in diameter divided into 52 segments, each marked with one of seven symbols (referred to as A to G). The table below sets out the frequency of the"
"different color: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. Each case has a different cash amount: £5000, £1000, £500, £100, and £0. Walker asks questions, and players who buzz in with a correct answer light up on green light on their podium. The first two to give three correct answers wins the right to enter the vault. Once in the vault, the first player to give three correct answers has a choice to make: they can either peek at a case, and directly see the value inside it, or say ""More or Less,"" where host Walker informs them if the case"
"popular draw, with around 15 to 45 million tickets sold each draw. The most winners for a single jackpot was 133 in January 1995, each player winning £122,510. In the draw, six numbered balls are drawn without replacement from a set of 59 balls numbered from 1 to 59 (formerly 1 to 49 until October 2015). A further ""Bonus Ball"" is also drawn, which affects only players who match five numbers. There are six prize tiers, which are awarded to players who match at least two of the six drawn numbers, with prizes increasing for matching more of the drawn"
"arranged in front of them and illuminate when pressed, randomly either green, or red, or golden yellow. 10 prizes of €100,000 and 10 prizes of €1,000 are at stake. Of the 30 buzzers : When contestants are unable to answer a question, they can search for a green buzzer to remove a wrong answer. During this search, contestants can also uncover: When a green buzzer is found, the host asks what are the 2 answers between which they are hesitating. Contestants will select, of course, the 2 answers that they consider the most plausible. One of those answers is wrong."
"television displaying a live feed from BBC One as they aired the live draw. After the draw, Brown wrote the results on a piece of card prior to turning the white balls around, facing the camera, to reveal that both the numbers on the balls and the numbers on the card were the same. The winning numbers were: 2, 11, 23, 28, 35 and 39. The bonus was number 15, however, his predictions did not include the bonus ball. On Friday 11 September at 21:00, a second show aired, which stated three possibilities for winning the lottery. The first, faking"
"Riverboat Gambler Riverboat Gambler is a gambling themed pinball machine produced by Williams. Pinball machine designer Mark Ritchie reportedly sings the song that plays during the game, whose gravel-voiced, New Orleans-style male voice sounds similar to Louis Armstrong. In the center of the head of the machine, a vertical roulette wheel operates more like the Wheel of Fortune than an actual roulette wheel and does not have a ball. 7 of 16 sections are black, 7 are red, which alternate, with two green spaces that have stars on opposite sides. Located directly above the roulette wheel, a four digit display"
"be black is still no more than 48.6% (assuming a ""fair"" European wheel with only one green zero; it would be exactly 50% if there were no green zero and the wheel were fair, and 47.4% for a fair American wheel with one green ""0"" and one green ""00""). Similarly, there is no statistical basis for the belief that lottery numbers which haven't appeared recently are due to appear soon. (There is some value in choosing lottery numbers that are, in general, less ""popular"" than others — not because they are any more or less likely to come up, but"
"numbers 20 to 29, and the right machine having the numbers from 00 to 99. One number was drawn at random from each of those machines; each pair creating a year. Each ticket had cost £5 per board. Camelot introduced the Lotto Raffle in October 2013, which was renamed Millionaire Raffle in October 2015. A raffle number was included with each line of Lotto numbers bought. Each raffle number consisted of a colour and eight numbers (e.g. AQUA 4579 2965), and each winning raffle number won a fixed amount of £20,000. Before October 2015, 50 raffle numbers were drawn with"
"has effectively wasted a turn. If a green ball is drawn, it is placed above the ball basin and the team may draw another ball. If a team draws all three green balls, they win a jackpot which increases with each correctly guessed word (but doesn't add to a team's score). From 1989-2000, the jackpot increased by ƒ50, and carried over from show to show; after 2000, it starts at €0 and increases by €100 per word but resets to €0 for each show, as well as when it is won... If a player draws a red ball, their team's"
"are sold on Wednesdays than Saturdays, increasing the probability of a rollover). ""Treble rollovers""—two consecutive rollovers—are much less common. The first quadruple rollover draw occurred on Saturday 29 September 2012 with a jackpot of £19.5 million. In the event of a quadruple rollover, if no tickets matched all six main numbers, the jackpot was shared between the tickets that match five numbers and the bonus ball. In October 2015, this rollover limit was replaced by a jackpot cap. Camelot announced that the ticket price was to double to £2 from 3 October 2013, with prizes restructured. The announcement was followed"
"splits: 5-8; 10-11; 13-16; 23-24; 27-30; 33-36. The tiers bet is also called the ""small series"" and in some casinos (most notably in South Africa) ""series 5-8"". A variant known as ""tiers 5-8-10-11"" has an additional chip placed straight up on 5, 8, 10 and 11; and so is a 10-piece bet. In some places the variant is called ""gioco Ferrari"" with a straight up on 8, 11, 23 and 30; the bet is marked with a red G on the racetrack. These numbers make up the two slices of the wheel outside the tiers and voisins. They contain a"
"that remains in play, for example if the player has 5 Twisters in play, £1000 (£1250 under the £250 a Twister rule) will be offered. The contestant's money has been placed behind one of the Twisters by an independent adjudicator. One by one, the Twisters in play are revealed to determine whether the money is there. If it is not there, a red ""X"" will appear on the display, but if the money is there, a gold ""WIN"" will appear. There are eight ""Twisters"" in the show. The colours are red, yellow, blue, orange, green, pink, white and purple, each"
"cash. All descriptions of players being credited in the remainder of this article assume that the player called a consonant which appeared in the puzzle. From 1987 to 1997, the wheel's colour scheme was similar to the US version's round 1 wheel used from 1986-1996. When the franc was in use, the minimum cash value on the wheel was 500₣ and the top values went as high as 10,000₣. Since adopting the euro, values ranged from €0 - €500 with top values of €1,000, €1,500, and €2,000. Since 2012, the values are ranged from €0 - €300. The €0 space"
"unique appearance as compared to other players. Movement is handled by spinning roulette wheels, although players actually collect the wheels themselves during the course of the game and pick which wheel to use each turn. There are 37 different wheels, with different distributions of numbers, allowing some strategy in trying to get the desired number to come up. Players can store up to five different roulette wheels at once. Some roulette wheels contain ""star spaces"". If the wheel lands on one of these locations, the player is subjected to the bonus or penalty from the current square again. While this"
"technical difficulties. Arthur wasn't used again until the draw on Saturday 5 January 2013. Also note, on the draw on Saturday 31 August 2013, they announced that Arthur with set of balls 3 was chosen, but they were using Merlin due to technical difficulties. Arthur wasn't used again until the draw on Wednesday 18 September 2013. National Lottery (United Kingdom) The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom. It is operated by Camelot Group, to whom the licence was granted in 1994, 2001 and again in 2007. The lottery was initially regulated by the National Lottery"
"randomly revealing and hiding letters until someone solves the puzzle, worth €100. Values range from €25 to €200 (later €0 to €200, and from €100 to €800 on the ""Premium"" edition in 2011). The audience typically chants common rhythmic chants as the player spins it. It has a Lose a Turn (PIERDE TURNO) and Bankrupt (QUIEBRA). Vowels are worth a flat €50 (€100 on early shows and on the ""premium"" edition in 2011, €25 on November 24, 2017), and must be purchased prior to spinning the wheel. There is one mystery wedge on the wheel in Round 3. It either"
"game will have to play 210 combinations, while a full wheel with 15 numbers in the same lottery will require 5005 combinations! In a famous occurrence, a Polish-Irish businessman named Stefan Klincewicz bought up 80% of the 1,947,792 combinations available at the Irish Lottery. He and his associates paid less than one million Irish pounds while the jackpot stood at 1.7 million pounds. The syndicate did have a ticket with the winning numbers. However, so did two other players, and the jackpot was split three ways. With the ""Match 4"" and ""Match 5"" prizes, though, Klincewicz's syndicate made a small"
"a ramp and enters the circumference of the wheel. The ball eventually falls into one of 25 cups on the wheel. The odds paid on the winning colour are 2, 3, 4 or 24 to 1, depending on the cup where the ball has fallen. Le multicolore Le multicolore is a game of chance from France and Catalonia that features characteristics of both roulette and bagatelle. In the game, a ball is rolled into a basin-shaped wheel, which is divided into twenty-five shallow cups. Each cup is assigned one of five colours, with a value ascribed. The game consists in"
"""place"" or ""show"", as with betting in horse racing. The payoffs varied from horse to horse, depending on how many times and where the horse appeared on the rings. Odds ranged from 40 to 1 for the ""longshot"" to win, down to 1-2 for the ""favorite"" to show. Regulation in the United Kingdom Regulation in New Zealand Big Six wheel The Big Six wheel, also known simply as The Big Six or Wheel of Fortune, is an unequal game of chance, played using a large vertical wheel that can be spun. Since 13 May 2002, it can be played legally"
"on 30 March 2012 during a radio programme appearance on ""The Chris Moyles Show"". In order to reduce production costs, a new game was also introduced to replace the roulette wheel, which is called ""The Vortex"". In this game, the last contestant remaining must predict how long a ball will take to descend a 'mini velodrome'. If a contestant wins, he or she will receive a rolling jackpot starting at £500,000. This increases by £500,000 for the next show if the jackpot is not won. Series 2 was sponsored by wonga.com and is completely pre-recorded. Each episode of series 1"
"their colour revealed is the winner and advances to the new final round, ""The Vortex"". The Vortex is ""a true test of skill, nerve and judgment"". It consists of a ""mini velodrome"" which flashes between red and black at a constant rate. The aim is to watch the sequence and adjust the power of the launcher, which will fire a ball into The Vortex. If the balls lands in the End Zone in the contestant's chosen colour, they win the jackpot (starting at £500,000), or else it will increase by £500,000 for the next show. Notes The coloured backgrounds denote"
"Wheel of Fortune (UK game show) Wheel of Fortune was a British television game show based on the American show of the same name created by Merv Griffin. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that contestants spin throughout the course of the game to determine their cash and/or prizes. The programme aired between 19 July 1988 and 21 December 2001 and was produced by Scottish Television (STV) for the ITV network - having effectively replaced ""Now You See It"" as"
"arcades. Machines commonly have three reels, but can be found with four or five reels with around sixteen to twenty-four symbols printed around them. The reels are spun each play, and if certain combinations of symbols appear then winnings are paid by the machine, or a subgame is played. These games often have many extra features, trails and subgames with opportunities to win money; usually more than can be won from just the payouts on the reel combinations. Fruit machines in the UK almost universally have the following features, generally selected at random using a pseudorandom number generator: It is"