Roulette Roundup: Five Games Worth Spinning Right Now

by Kevin Lentz 21.09.2026

Roulette has been around for centuries, pretty much unchanged. But the past few years have seen an explosion of new game ideas, everything from multipliers and bonus rounds to red doors and masters of ceremonies. Here are five roulette games with very different reasons to give them a spin.

Today’s roulette offers far more than red or black. © Angelo_Giordano, Pixabay

Roulette Revival

Part of the enduring appeal of roulette is its simplicity. Pick a number, pick a color, or maybe a section of the wheel, watch the ball spin and hope for the best. And that has meant the game played before the French Revolution has made its way, mostly unscathed, into the 21st century.

However, online casino developers have been busy as the game continues to soar in popularity with the younger generation. The hotter the game, the more folks looking to capitalize.

Today’s real money roulette casinos offer up everything from faithful versions of the old French classic to games broadcast directly from casino floors on Atlantic City’s Boardwalk or the Las Vegas Strip. You can chase random multipliers, clap for MCs, and even play roulette with a celebrity who isn’t even really there.

Here are the five games that not only show how far roulette has come, but give you a good idea of how much further the game might evolve.

What you give up for the extras:

• French Roulette – the full 35 to 1 straight-up payout, house edge as low as 1.35%
• Lightning Roulette – 29 to 1, but Lucky Numbers pay 50x to 500x
• Red Door Roulette – just 19 to 1, in exchange for a Crazy Time bonus wheel
• Dual Play Roulette – no trade-off at all; the maths is the same as the pit table
• Vinnie Jones Roulette – standard European odds, with a celebrity host

NetEnt French Roulette: Standing the Test of Time

A classic becomes a classic in the same way that the ball wears that groove into the wheel head, first one spin then a hundred then a thousand, and suddenly three hundred years later, one simply can’t imagine it being any other way.

Without a history lesson, suffice it to say that what we call French roulette was a bit of a marketing ploy that really came into its own in Monte Carlo as a way to gin up interest in the casinos there in the 1800s. By reducing the number of zeros to one and then offering up En Prison and La Partage — with La Partage, the house takes only half of your even-money bet when zero hits, while En Prison holds the bet for the next spin — the game was a hit almost from launch.

French roulette also famously has the racetrack layout, and sexily named bets like Voisins du Zero and Orphelins. That gives jaded players considerably more bets to work with than simply choosing red or black, yet the house advantage can be as low as only 1.35% vs 5.26% on а typical double-zero American Roulette wheel if you seek out games that offer the La Partage rule.

French Roulette is a reminder that sometimes-fancy gimmicks can work so well that they become the gold standard for play over the next couple of centuries.

Lightning Roulette: Evolution Powers Up a Modern Classic

French Roulette probably conjures up dinner jackets, martinis. and that lemony scent of sea air wafting in from the Med on a slow Saturday evening. Evolution took a slightly different approach.

Lightning Roulette combines an Auto Roulette wheel, a live presenter, and randomly generated Lucky numbers, and there is nothing refined or slow about it. Between one and five of these Lucky numbers can be chosen each round, and payouts soar to anywhere from 50x to 500x.

Of course, there is a price to pay for all those lucky numbers, so instead of the usual payout of 35 to 1 on a straight-up number, you only get 29 to 1. The formula here has certainly found a receptive audience, with the title at the top of Hard Rock Bets Live Dealer games, and in DraftKings top five of all table games last month.

We suppose there’s something to be said for high-impact multipliers, fast-paced gameplay, and stunning visuals built on top of the traditional roulette game. Over the past several years, it has brought a whole new generation of roulette players into the fold. What once looked like an unusual roulette experience now feels like it has always been on the casino floor, well, the online floor anyway.

Dual Play Roulette: Location. Location. Location?

If Lightning Roulette has become a standard on the online casino floor, then Evolution’s other paradigm shift raises an even more interesting question. What happens if the online space and the brick-and-mortar casino are the same. At Borgata, in Atlantic City, we already have an answer.

Their Dual Play roulette uses an actual physical table on the casino floor where players sit down and play as usual, while New Jersey players can join in on the very same game through BetMGM or Borgata Online and play right alongside.

Multiple cameras stream the action, giving online players a close-up view of the wheel, the table, or even the other players. But this isn’t a studio designed to look like a casino floor, this is the actual casino floor at a high-end luxury property in Atlantic City.

That dealer is standing in a pit at the Borgata, and is managing players both feet and miles away at the same time. And, apparently, players like the idea.

Borgata and BetMGM launched Dual Play Roulette back in August 2023, and when they extended the format to Dual Play Baccarat in 2025, BetMGM said the games had become some of the property’s most popular tables, posting impressive numbers both online and retail.

So it’s something different than just another roulette variation. The wheel and the betting hasn’t changed. No 500x multipliers, at least not yet, no bonus rounds. But they’ve totally erased the line between land-based and online roulette, and in the end, that may prove to be considerably more important.

Red Door Roulette: Come on In

If Dual Play Roulette blurs the line between land-based and online, then Red Door Roulette is what happens when we cross roulette with the ever-more-popular casino game shows. And they go together like Garbo and Astaire.

Launched in the US in 2025, Red Door Roulette combines a single-zero roulette wheel, a smidgen of Lightning Roulette,and a heap of their Crazy Time casino game show. Before each spin. There’s a chance for the game presenter to allow the random number generator to choose between three and 15 bonus numbers, represented in this case by keys that might just gain you entry to the mysterious red door.

Now, should you manage to land on one of those numbers with a straight-up bet, you’ll find yourself playing a Crazy Time bonus wheel, where you can land additional bonus multipliers. But, as always, there’s a catch. In this case, our 35 to 1 on a straight-up payout drops all the way down to just 19 to 1, which Evolution would have you believe is just a small price to pay for all that added excitement.

This is less a new roulette side bet than a gumbo of existing types of casino games. They’ve taken the familiar roulette wheel, added some bonus games, thrown in a bit of multipliers,and then wrapped the whole thing up in game show theater. And apparently that’s the point, combining two of its most popular formats into one. If players are already switching back and forth between the two, why not just give them both games at once?

Vinnie Jones Roulette: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici.

We promised you a celebrity who isn’t really there, so meet Vinnie Jones. We realize that many on this side of the pond will be asking who that is. And the very simple answer is Big Chris in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, though trust us when we tell you he’s a very well-known actor and ex-footballer in Great Britain.

Real Dealer Studios decided to capitalize not only on that fame, but this rather deadpan delivery, and recorded him as your roulette host. Just place your bets, and Mr Jones takes over, calling an end to betting and keeping up small talk in a way only he can. The results sit somewhere between live dealer roulette, and a very elaborate movie set.

While it’s just barely ready for prime time, what we find most interesting about this novel approach is where it might lead. AI dealers that look and act the part are already here, with at least one company betting its entire future on replacing traditional live dealer infrastructure.

There is nothing stopping us from having Marilyn Monroe or James Dean as our roulette presenter; well, other than some likely copyright and IP disputes, but that’s for the lawyers to figure out.

And speaking of celebrity game presenters, this could easily go the other way, where real live dealers with various desirable attributes, say wit or sex appeal, might themselves become famous. It might be that in the very near future, you can log in to play roulette with a croupier AI version of Albert Einstein. However, it might also be that you log in to play with Rocking Rita Roulette, the 21st century version of a live influencer mashup with the looks of Hepburn and the jokes of Douglas Adams.

So, here we are, three centuries later; the wheel itself has barely changed. Yet, apparently, developers have decided everything, and we mean everything, else is fair game. We can only imagine what they will come up with next.