There is no doubt that online roulette casinos have an interesting legacy they owe their existence to; the history of the game of roulette is unquestionably one that is colorful, to say the least. Still, there would appear to be no plausible explanation for some of the quirks in a roulette wheel.

The fact is that the wheel in online roulette casinos offers an equitable game for bettors in the sense that the colors on the wheel itself alternate. In other words, they go red-black, red-black, red-black, all the way around the wheel, with the exception of the zero and/or double zero, which generally appear in pockets that are green (though that is not a hard and fast rule). But you would figure that the numbers themselves would alternate in a "red-black" kind of way; in other words, if 18 is red, it would seem logical that 19 would be black, and so on. But in fact that is not the case, and while it does not change the game itself for players in online roulette casinos, it does get you thinking about who dreamed this thing up.

Or does it? Wait just a second - there may be a method to this madness after all. If you make a close examination of the wheel in the online roulette casinos, you're going to notice that there is a deliberate design after all, because you will find that there is a certain symmetry, in that at any given dividing point, you'll see that directly across the wheel from every odd number, you're going to see the next highest even number. You'll also see that pairs of even numbers alternate with pairs of odd numbers. Is that odd? Also, you're going to see an awful lot of side-by-side combinations that add up to 49. For example, you'll see 31 next to 18, 17 next to 32, 15 next to 34, 33 next to 16, 35 next to 14, and 36 next to 13. There's undoubtedly a pattern behind that.

While this is all amusing, how does this impact your results, when all is said and done, in the game as it is played in online roulette casinos? Well, it won't, because it won't really affect affect your chances of hitting any specific number, or of achieving a red or black result. So just give that wheel a spin, and while you're doing that, don't forget to check out other roulette content at www.rouletteplay.com/