NEW GAMBLING GAMES
MONTE CARLO’S LATEST
INGENIOUS DOUBLE ROULETTE. Monte Carlo Casino recently introduced two new games, for which picked croupiers had been undergoing a strenuous training for months. The first is known as “ Double Roulette.” It is an ingenious combination of two roulette wheels in one, and the highest odds possible are no less than 1200 to 1, as against 35 to 1 in ordinary roulette. A small wheel is fitted inside a larger one, and they both revolve in the same direction, but at different speeds. An ivory ball is thrown, as in ordinary roulette, and falls into a numbered recess in the smaller wheel. When this ceases to spin a special device automatically locks the two wheels together with their numbers facing each other. Anyone wishing to play for the highest odds must purchase special numbered chips, and these lie must stake on a number. If the ball falls into the recess bearing his number, and if the wheels are so locked that the number facing the recess is the same as that on which the numbered chip is staked, the player is paid 1200 times the value of his stake. For a bet of 20 francs, or a little over ss, he would receive £320, counting the exchange at 75 to the fl. Play on combinations of numbers is allowed, that is, on 2,3, 4. or 6 combinations. the odds being respectively 280 to 1, 120 to 1, 04 to 1, and 25 to 1. The game is evidently somewhat complicated for (lie beginner, but printed rules are handed to all interested, and it is hardly necessary to add that it is carried out with the utmost mathematical and scientific precision. At present it is to bn seen only at the International Sporting Club. Tlie other innovation, for the present confined to the Casino, is apparently for those visitors who do not take their gambling too seriously. It is known as “ Les Petits Avions,” obviously _ a modern development of “ Les Petits Chevaux.”
In (lie centre of a large hexagonal glass case, balanced around an upright mast, are 17 little model aeroplanes, each bearing a number. They are made to revolve independently by means of a small electric motor, and the one which stops nearest to the finishing point is the winner.
According to the chance chosen it is possible to win anything up to 15 times one’s stake. The machine is a masterpiece of mechanical ingenuity.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 4
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