A 5-Minute Guide to Lightning Roulette

The Rules of Lightning Roulette

This roulette variant is played with a wheel with 37 numbered pockets, numbered 0 to 36 (the total is 36 since the 0 is one of the numbers).

The numbers can be divided into 2 columns: the first (numbers 1 to 18) and the second (numbers 19 to 36). One column is black, while the other is red. They can also be divided into 3 dozens, which are 1 to 12, 13 to 24, and 25 to 36.

You've also got an Even/Odd division, and separated from all of these divisions is the zero.

Just like European Roulette, you have two main types of bets: inside bets, where you bet on a specific number or multiple individual numbers, and outside bets, where you bet on groups of numbers.

The game allows you to place as many bets as you want. You are not limited to betting on just 1 number or group of numbers at a time.

Once the bets have been placed, a lightning bolt will be fired and will hit somewhere between 1 and 5 numbers (chosen at random). The numbers hit by lightning are called "Lucky Numbers", and each will have a different payout multiplier applied to it that will be 50x, 100x, 200x, 300x, 400x, or 500x.

Then, the ball is thrown into the wheel and eventually stops at one of the numbers on the wheel. If you've bet on the number it ended up on, you win money.

However, here's where things get spicy for Lightning Roulette: if you've bet on a Lucky Number, and the ball falls on it, your payout will be multiplied by its assigned modifier.

For instance, if you've bet on the number 19, and then lightning falls on it, and it gains a 500x multiplier, you'll get 500x the original payout.

So, let's say you've bet just $1 on the number 19, you'll get a $500 payout. Pretty impressive, right? That's what makes Lightning Roulette so exciting to play.

If the 19 wasn't hit by lightning, the payout would be 29 to 1 plus the original bet amount (total 30 to 1) as the standard payout of a Straight Up bet, instead of 500 to 1. Therefore, you'd make $30 on the $1 you've put down. Not too shabby either.

The Bet Types

We've touched a bit on this topic beforehand about how bets are divided into inside bets and outside bets, and they're an important part to understand the rules of the game and win as much as possible.

The Inside Bets available in Lightning Roulette are:

• Straight Up - the bet is placed on a single number. It can be the zero too. The payout rate is 29 to 1 plus your bet back (equaling to 30 to 1), as mentioned earlier.
• Split Bet - you place a bet on the line between two different numbers, getting a payout if the ball falls on either of them. The payout for a split bet is 17 to 1.
• Street Bet - you place a chip on a row of 3 consecutive numbers. For instance, "1, 2, 3" or "7, 8, 9". This bet type is also known as the Side Bet, The Trio, or the Three Number bet, and has an 11 to 1 payout.
• Corner Bet - place a bet on the part of the line that has 4 numbers intersected. Also known as Four Number Bet and The Square, it has a payout rate of 8 to 1.
• Line Bet - similar to a street bet, except you place the bet at the intersection between two sequences of 3 numbers, for a total of 6 numbers. It has a 5 to 1 payout and is known as Six Number Bet or Sixline Bet as well.

The Outside Bets are the following:

• Column Bet - places a bet on all 12 numbers of a column. The zero isn't considered a part of any of the columns. The payout is 2 to 1.
• Dozen Bet - it covers 12 different numbers portrayed in the vertical columns of "1st 12", "2nd 12", or "3rd 12." This bet also has a payout of 2 to 1.
• Red/Black - as its name implies, you bet on all 18 red numbers or all 18 black numbers. The zero is not included. The payout is 1 to 1.
• Even/Odd - place on all 18 odd numbers or all 18 even numbers, the zero not included. The payout here is 1 to 1 as well.
• 1-18 Or 19-36 - also known as high/low bets, this one puts your luck on 18 numbers, either the first half or the second half. The payout is once again 1 to 1.

Inside Bets and Outside Bets aren't the only ones available though. You also have Announce Bets that you place on the racetrack of the layout. They are:

• Voisins de Zero - you bet on all numbers of the wheel between 22 and 25, which results in 17 different numbers, including zero. They are "22-18-29-7-28-12-35-3-26-0-32-15-19-4-21-2-25". The payout will differ based on the specific number the ball falls on, and can be as high as 24 to 1.
• Orphelins en Cheval - bet on 8 numbers divided into those that are to the right of the zero (17, 34, and 6) and have a payout of 35 to 1, and the numbers to the left of the zero (1, 20, 14, 31, 9) and payout 17 to 1.
• Tiers du Cylindre - places your bets on all numbers between 27 and 33 of the wheel, "27-13-36-11-30-8-23-10-5-24-16-33." The payout is 17 to 1.
• Zero Game - a smaller version of Voisins de Zero, it covers the zero, two numbers to its right, and 4 numbers to its left. The final numbers are "2-35-3-26-0-32-15.". Landing on a 26 will get you a 36 to 1 payout, while the other numbers will get you an 18 to 1 payout.

To Conclude

That is all you need to know to start playing Lightning Roulette. Just place your bets, hope that your chosen number is hit by lighting, and then wait to see if you are lucky enough to win an enormous payout.