Le multicolore

Le Multicolore is a popular French game of chance that is offered variously referred to in billiard club Cercle game. It combines features of roulette or boule and the Bagatelle game by the pool.

As the inventor of the Multicolore the French mathematician and Prime Minister Paul Painlevé is called, who developed the game at the behest of President Raymond Poincaré as an alternative to roulette.

The game

As a gaming table is a pool table, at one end is a kind of roulette wheel; the table is framed on the sides of a panel, the players place their bets.

Once the players have bet, the dealer comes with a cue ball at a Ivory, this is running on a gang and then rolls over a small ramp into the cylinder, where it falls into one of 25 subjects of a rotatable disc.

One of the 25 subjects is characterized by a white star (L' Étoile ) on a blue ground and in the number 24; the remaining subjects each carry one of four colors: white, red, yellow or green. Of the six compartments of a color, each a specialist with the number 4, three subjects are presented with the number three and the last two marked with the number 2. These figures give the ( net ) at odds.

Example: If a player about € 5 on red and the ball falls into the red box with the number 3, so he wins in the ratio 3: 1, ie in addition to its use of € 5, he naturally gets refunded, the Bank pays a profit of € 15

The house edge on the bet on one of these four colors is 8%, in contrast, offers the bet on the banker L' Étoile no advantage - the ratio 24: 1 is fair.