A roulette game enables single-spin formation of meaningful character strings, which character strings may be coupled to tones for enhancing the gaming experience. The meaningful character strings may be defined by solfege-enabling letter groups, which letter groups may prompt underlying tones in solmization. The syllabic roulette game comprises a roulette wheel, a wager-enabling layout, and a plurality of balls. The wheel comprises alphabetic characters against a rainbow colored backdrop for enabling various payout schemes. A color-coordinated wager support surface is preferably disposed adjacent the roulette wheel for facilitating wager placement.

Embodiments of various games are described. One example embodiment includes a plurality of wheels on which players may place a bet. A different number of wheels may be used from game to game.

A gaming system combines roulette and mahjong gaming into a single new game for ball-effecting a mahjong event. The game may comprise a grouped series of roulette wheel assemblies bearing mahjong symbols and a plurality of balls respectively receivable in ball-receiving sectors for identifying a number of mahjong symbols. The group of mahjong symbols identified by the randomly received balls defines a wagerable mahjong event. Players may participate in the gaming in a player participation area, which area is opposed a theatrical or auditorium type visual display of the grouped roulette wheel assembly action. Players may input their wagers in the player participation area and watch the roulette action unfold on the visual displays. Certain methodology for effecting the mahjong event is further supported by the roulette medium.

A roulette machine having a launch device including an automatic ball-change magazine is described. The magazine includes a revolving mechanism positioned over a plate with a through hole. The magazine stores a plurality of roulette balls for future use and facilitates changing a current game ball for a next ball once the current game ball has been used a predetermined number of times. A roulette ball change is facilitated by rotating the revolving mechanism sufficient to trap the current game ball and prevent it from being used, then rotating the revolving mechanism further to release the next ball from storage. The magazine further facilitates the utilization of a special ball for one game cycle in place of the current game ball and then switching back to the current game ball at the conclusion of the one game cycle.

A roulette system including two roulette machines. Standard roulette bets may be placed by a player on a first roulette machine and if no side bet is placed, only the first machine is operated. When a side bet is placed, a second roulette machine is operated in parallel with the first machine. Side bets may be based on various combinations of results from each machine, or an aggregate total of the result of both machines, and other proposition type bets. Inertial values associated with the balls of each machine may be monitored and used to adjust ball launch times, ball launch speeds, rotation velocity of roulette wheels of the machines and the braking of the roulette wheels so the machines operate in parallel.

A roulette machine having a launch device including an automatic ball-change device is described. The ball-change device includes a rotatable main wheel comprising a plurality of pockets, and a rotatable switch wheel switching between an open position and a closed position. The main wheel receives and stores a plurality of roulette balls for future use and facilitates changing of a current game ball and, with the switch wheel, delivering the roulette ball to a launch start position or other desired output. The main wheel and the switch wheel may be independently rotatable, and coordinate with one or more sensors to determine a timing and delivery of a specifically-selected game ball to start a game cycle.

A rotating apparatus for a game system having a light-emitting device includes a rotating member that rotates on a fixing member, light-irradiated areas that are partitioned and formed in a circumferential direction of the rotating member, light sources annularly arranged in the fixing member that irradiate the light-irradiated areas with light, a light-blocking body that is formed in the rotating member so as to prevent the light, with which a specific light-irradiated area as a light irradiation target out of the light-irradiated areas is irradiated, from leaking into other light-irradiated areas and adjacent to the specific light-irradiated area, and a control unit that controls a timing of changing light intensity of the light sources, and the control unit turning on and off the light sources in synchronization with the rotation of the specific light-irradiated area as the light irradiation target.

An enhanced roulette game is provided with more exciting game play with differing odds as compared to traditional roulette. The roulette game has a two-track roulette wheel for the simultaneous use of two separate balls during game play, with an increased number of betting numbers of 63 (1-60, 0, 00, and 000) or 75 (0, 00, 000, 1-72) around a single course of pockets or cassettes. One of the two roulette balls may be a gold ball that represents a bonus payout or bonus for hitting both numbers for one or more players. A set of playing chips have radio frequency identification (RFID), or other locating devices that interact with the grid to determine chip placement on the betting layout to automatically calculate a bet payoff.

A roulette lottery apparatus with a novel configuration causes a player not to lose interest. The roulette lottery apparatus 1 for a roulette game comprises: plural roulette bodies that have plural ball pockets into which lottery balls enter, the plurality of roulette bodies being held so as to be rotatable about a horizontal or tilted rotation axis in a state where a rotation plane of the ball pockets is raisable, each of the plurality of the roulette bodies having different diameters; a drive source that rotationally drives the roulette bodies; and ball guide members that guide the balls to enter into any ball pocket among the ball pockets while causing the balls to be in pendular movement. The plural roulette bodies are arranged in a stepped state in which the roulette bodies are displaced in an axis direction on the rotation center line.

A roulette game enables single-spin formation of meaningful character strings, which character strings may be coupled to tones for enhancing the gaming experience. The meaningful character strings may be defined by solfege-enabling letter groups, which letter groups may prompt underlying tones in solmization. The syllabic roulette game comprises a roulette wheel, a wager-enabling layout, and a plurality of balls. The wheel comprises alphabetic characters against a rainbow colored backdrop for enabling various payout schemes. A color-coordinated wager support surface is preferably disposed adjacent the roulette wheel for facilitating wager placement.