Multicolore

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A multicolor game table

Le multicolore is a game of chance that is popular in France and is offered variously in game clubs called Billiard Cercles . It combines characteristics of roulette or boules and the game of bagatelles with billiards .

The French mathematician and Prime Minister Paul Painlevé , who developed the game at the instigation of President Raymond Poincaré as an alternative to roulette, is named as the inventor of the multicolore .

The game

A billiard table serves as a game table, at one end of which there is a kind of roulette cylinder; the table is framed on the sides by a tableau on which the players place their bets.

As soon as the players have placed their bets , the croupier kicks an ivory ball with a cue , it runs up against a board and then rolls over a small ramp into the cylinder, where it falls into one of 25 compartments on a rotating disc.

One of the 25 compartments is marked with a white star ( L'Étoile ) on a blue background and the number 24; the other compartments each have one of the four colors: white, red, yellow or green. Of each of the six subjects of one color, one subject is marked with the number 4, three subjects are marked with the number 3 and the last two with the number 2. These numbers indicate the (net) profit percentages .

Example : If a player bets around € 5 on red and the ball falls into the red compartment with the number 3, he wins at a ratio of 3: 1, i.e. H. in addition to his stake of € 5, which he will of course get refunded, the bank pays a profit of € 15.

The bank advantage when betting on one of these four colors is 8%, in contrast, the bet on L'Étoile offers the banker no advantage - the odds of 24: 1 are fair .

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