roulette wheel

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Where the house maintains its edge is in the two additional numbers foisted upon the roulette wheel, a single zero and a double zero, both painted green.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

“It’s a roulette wheel of excuses,” he said of Cracker Barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 25, 2025

"They expect the house to pay out on the roulette wheel if they bet on number 13 and the ball lands on number 13."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

Life in downtown Los Angeles is a roulette wheel of homelessness, wealth, film shoots, murals and the promise and burden of an unfinished city.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

My twenty- three paired chromosomes have linked up and crossed over, spinning their roulette wheel, as my papou puts his hand on my mother’s belly and says, “Lucky two!”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides