The roulette wheel gained a lot of traction relatively quickly and by the end of the century, it was a popular game in Paris.
Apparently, he was trying to create a perpetual motion machine as he was studying probabilities, but the outcome took him by surprise. The history of the game begins more than 300 years ago, at the end of the 17th century, with Frenchman Blaise Pascal being credited with this invention.
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