lands where you wanted.
The Wheel of Fortune has a rich history – for
its owners, not its players. While games like craps,
roulette and blackjack can be traced to the earliest
days of man’s existence and to serious pursuits
(to ascertain the will of the gods, to predict the
future, etc.), the Wheel of Fortune has always been
somewhat frivolous and can be traced to the carnivals
and sideshows that made their serpentine way across
Europe and America in the 1700s to the mid 1900s.
These carnivals consisted of rides (animal then
mechanical), freak shows with such entertainment
as bearded ladies, giants, pin heads, midgets, lizard
men, Siamese twins, feral men and wild women, and
games – often gaffed games [gaffed means rigged]
that set up and then plucked the unwary pigeons
whose attention they had attracted.
One such game was the
Wheel of Fortune. Despite the fact that carnivals
never paid off the players’ wagers at anything
close to the true odds of the bets, the carnival
barkers still cheated by putting a pedal under the
betting layout so that the dealer could stop the
wheel on the number he wanted. In this way, the
dealer could lure a sucker in by allowing him to
win a few little bets and then clobbering him when
he started to put up some serious money. Or, the
dealer could allow the wheel to stop just short
of the suckers bets, often shouting, “Oooo!
Look how close you came. You’re about to get
lucky!”
The casino version of the Wheel of Fortune is not
rigged in such an underhanded way but rather it
rigged legally because it pays back winning wagers
at less than true odds, much, much less in fact.
Some of the very worst house edges can be found
at it, anywhere from 11 percent to 24 percent. Ouch!
Yet, people play it – “Ooooo! Look how
close you came! Is someone about to get lucky?”
Answer: Not if he plays
it for any length of time!
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