The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. 'Several early versions of a wheel and spinning ball were invented in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. There are stories that the game was invented in China and brought to Europe by traders who were trading with the Chinese. 'Roulette history is hard to come by because the origin of roulette is lost, and there was likely some form of a wheel based game going back almost as far as the origin of the wheel itself.
