ABSTRACT
Some of the simplest casino games are played with wheels and balls of various sorts, including the familiar roulette, keno, bingo, and Big Six wheel. The most famous wheel-and-ball casino game is roulette, in which a wheel divided into multiple pockets—37 in European roulette, 38 in American roulette—is spun and a small ball is released into the wheel. Stakes and Odds was a series of roulette-based games devised to study human decision-making processes, and was offered at the Four Queens Casino in Las Vegas for a short time in the late 1960s. The Big Six wheel, in any of its configurations, often sits idle on the casino floor, in part, perhaps, because serious gamblers are well aware that its house advantage is far higher than other table games. The Minnesota Tri-Wheel spun off a descendant, the Pig Wheel, which is approved for use in North Dakota.
