Is this roulette game played for real money?

No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.

Which roulette wheel should I practice on?

The French wheel costs least if you bet even money. It has one zero, and its la partage rule returns half of an even-money bet on zero, which brings those six bets to 1.35% of every chip staked. Every other bet on it, and every bet on the European wheel, costs 2.70%. The American wheel adds a second zero at the same payouts, which raises the edge to 5.26%. Switch between them at the table and the cost panel reprices your layout.

Is there a roulette strategy that beats the wheel?

No. Every bet on this layout pays slightly less than its true odds, so no combination of bets and no staking pattern turns the average cost of a spin into a gain. Splits, corners and announced bets such as Voisins du Zero only spread chips over more pockets at the same 2.70%. The one choice that lowers the cost is even-money bets on the French wheel, and at 1.35% they still lose on average.

How is each spin decided?

Your browser draws one random number per spin and maps it to a pocket, with every pocket equally likely. Nothing depends on your bets, your balance or earlier results. The wheel and ball animation is drawn afterwards to land on the pocket already chosen.

Free Roulette

Three wheels and the full layout, played for chips that are worth nothing, with the price of your bets worked out before the ball drops.

Play chips

1,000

No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.

Wheel

Pick a chip and place your bets.

The dots on the borders take inside bets: a split between two numbers, a corner where four meet, and a street or six line on the line above the dozens.

Inside bets

Announced bets

Voisins, Tiers, Orphelins and neighbors are cut from the pocket order of a single-zero wheel. Pick the European or French wheel to place them.

Session coach

Coach me as I play

Last round

Nothing played yet. After each of your spins the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.

Decide the cost before you start

Gambling is entertainment with a price, like a concert ticket. The useful question is not how much you might win but how much the evening is allowed to cost. Pick that number first, and treat reaching it as the end of the session. You can set one below and the coach will hold you to it.

Next bet

No bet lined up. Once there is one, its expected cost shows here before you play it.

This table is for practice and entertainment only. How to keep gambling safe

What this layout costs

Chance a bet wins: No bets; 0 of 38 pockets covered, marked on the wheel rim
Expected cost of the spin: 0; 5.26% of 0 chips
Best pocket: 0
Worst pocket: 0

Every bet on this wheel costs the same 5.26% of the chips on it. Spreading them changes how often something wins and how much, never what the spin costs on average. See every bet priced

This session

Spins: 0
Chips staked: 0
Net chips: 0
Expected at this edge: 0

Expected is the house edge taken on every chip you have staked. Over a few spins the result swings well away from it in both directions. Over many, it closes in.

Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections

House edge on the American wheel, every bet: 5.26%
House edge on the European wheel, every bet: 2.70%
Even-money bets on the French wheel: 1.35%
Paid on a single number, one pocket in 37 or 38: 35 to 1

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A table that prices the layout

Roulette has almost no decisions to get right, which is exactly what is worth practicing.

On the American and European wheels, whatever you put on the layout, the wheel takes the same share of it on average: 5.26% and 2.70%. The French wheel is the one place a choice of bet changes the price: its la partage rule cuts the even-money bets to 1.35%. Everything else you choose changes only the shape of the ride, how often a spin pays and how big the swings are.

What the wheel keeps of every chip

American wheel, every bet5.26%
European wheel, every bet2.70%
French wheel, every other bet2.70%
French wheel, even-money bets1.35%
Half the stake comes back on zero (la partage)

House edge as a share of the chips staked. On the first two wheels it is the same for every bet on the layout.

So the table prices your layout while the chips are still in your hand.

Put a chip on a single number and the panel shows a small chance of a large return. Cover most of the wheel with splits, corners or an announced bet and it shows a frequent small win and a rare large loss. The expected cost is worked out bet by bet under all of it, and seeing how little your pattern moves it is the lesson.

Two layouts on the european wheel, in wheel order

One chip on 17
Pockets that pay
1 of 37
Chance a spin pays
2.70%
On its kindest pocket
+35
On its worst pocket
−1
Expected cost of a spin: 0.03 chips, which is 2.70% of the chip down.
Voisins du Zero, 9 chips
Pockets that pay
17 of 37
Chance a spin pays
45.95%
On its kindest pocket
+15
On its worst pocket
−9
Expected cost of a spin: 0.24 chips, which is 2.70% of the 9 chips down.

The gold pockets are the ones each layout has a chip on. The ride changes. The share the wheel keeps does not.

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Rules at this table

American wheel
Pockets
38
Zeros
0 and 00
Announced bets
Not offered
Half back on zero
No
House edge
5.26%
On every bet offered
European wheel
Pockets
37
Zeros
0
Announced bets
Offered
Half back on zero
No
House edge
2.70%
On every bet offered
French wheel
Pockets
37
Zeros
0
Announced bets
Offered
Half back on zero
Even-money bets
House edge
2.70%
1.35% on the even-money bets

A single number pays 35 to 1. A split (two numbers that touch) pays 17 to 1, a street (a row of three) 11 to 1, a corner (four numbers that meet) 8 to 1 and a six line (two streets) 5 to 1.
On the single-zero wheels the zero also takes a split with 1, 2 or 3, a trio with 1 and 2 or with 2 and 3 (11 to 1), and the first four, 0 to 3 (8 to 1).
A dozen or a column pays 2 to 1. Red, black, odd, even, 1 to 18 and 19 to 36 pay 1 to 1.
On the American and European wheels every outside bet loses when the ball lands on a zero. On the French wheel, la partage returns half of each even-money bet when the ball lands on zero. Dozens, columns and inside bets still lose.
Announced bets, on the single-zero wheels: Voisins du Zero (9 chips on 17 pockets), Tiers du Cylindre (6 chips on 12 pockets), Orphelins (5 chips on 8 pockets), and a number with 2 neighbors either side on the wheel (5 chips on 5 pockets). Each is placed as ordinary splits, corners, a trio and single numbers at the chip you have selected.
Any spot takes up to 500 chips. Your bets stay on the layout for the next spin until you clear them.
On a wide screen, inside bets are placed on the dots along the borders between numbers. On a phone they are placed from the Inside bets list under the layout. On the American wheel the two zeros take single-number chips only.

FAQ

Is this roulette game played for real money?: No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
Which roulette wheel should I practice on?: The French wheel costs least if you bet even money. It has one zero, and its la partage rule returns half of an even-money bet on zero, which brings those six bets to 1.35% of every chip staked. Every other bet on it, and every bet on the European wheel, costs 2.70%. The American wheel adds a second zero at the same payouts, which raises the edge to 5.26%. Switch between them at the table and the cost panel reprices your layout.
Is there a roulette strategy that beats the wheel?: No. Every bet on this layout pays slightly less than its true odds, so no combination of bets and no staking pattern turns the average cost of a spin into a gain. Splits, corners and announced bets such as Voisins du Zero only spread chips over more pockets at the same 2.70%. The one choice that lowers the cost is even-money bets on the French wheel, and at 1.35% they still lose on average.
How is each spin decided?: Your browser draws one random number per spin and maps it to a pocket, with every pocket equally likely. Nothing depends on your bets, your balance or earlier results. The wheel and ball animation is drawn afterwards to land on the pocket already chosen.

How this game works

Each spin draws one random number in your browser and maps it to a pocket, every pocket equally likely. Bets are settled with the same functions the roulette payouts tool is built on. The house edge is one minus the share of pockets a bet covers multiplied by what it returns, which comes to 5.26% for every bet offered on the American wheel and 2.70% on the European one.

On the French wheel an even-money bet wins on 18 of 37 pockets, loses on 18 and loses half on zero, which comes to 1.35%, half the single-zero figure. Every other bet there stays at 2.70%. The engine's tests confirm each figure by settling one chip against every pocket of the wheel in turn.

The chance a bet wins is the number of pockets your chips cover divided by the pockets on the wheel. The expected cost of a spin is each bet's edge multiplied by the chips on it, added up. Best and worst pocket are found by settling your layout against every pocket in turn. Announced bets are priced the same way, as the layout bets they are made of.

Limits

A chance that some bet wins is not a chance of finishing ahead: a winning spot can return less than the whole layout cost.
En prison, where an even-money bet is held for another spin instead of halved, is not dealt here, and neither is surrender on the American wheel. American layouts also offer a five-number bet with a worse edge and splits with the zeros, which this table leaves out.
La partage can return half a chip, and this table pays it exactly, so a balance can end in half a chip.
Play chips do not feel like money. A losing run that is easy to sit through here is harder with a real stake.

This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Roulette played for money has a house edge on every spin, and no system or amount of practice removes it.

Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.

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