Scenes from a Casino Trivia Quiz

Roulette is a French gambling game involving a wheel with different numbered pockets. Typically, the wheel contains numbers 0-36 but American roulette also has a 00 pocket and some wheels also contain a 000 pocket. There are many different kinds of bets a gambler can place with a single number paying out more money than other bets.

Blackjack or Twenty-One is a popular card game played in casinos. The goal is for the player to have a better hand than the dealer. The player must accumulate cards that total as close to twenty-one as possible without going over and busting. In blackjack, an ace can be valued one or eleven.

When an ace is valued at one, the hand is called soft and when it is valued at eleven, it is called hard. Typically speaking, the dealer will hit on a soft 17 or lower and stand on a hard 17 or higher.

Poker is one of the most popular card games in casinos. There are many different variations of poker but the aim of the game is to achieve the highest hand of cards with a royal flush typically being the best hand. The payouts for poker all depends on the betters themselves and how high they are willing to push the pot.

Baccarat is a popular card game in casinos. There are different variations of baccarat with punto banco being the one most popular in the Americas. Baccarat is played with one player against a banker to see who can achieve the best hand. In the United States, Baccarat is popular amongst high rollers and often has very high minimum bets.

Craps is a very popular dice game in which gambler place bets on what the outcome of the dice roll will be. The game was originally called Crabs or Krabs and may also be called Hazard. Craps is well-known for the lingo the shooter (the person rolling the dice) may shout before rolling.

Slot machines are probably the most popular game in casinos. There are many different types of slot machines but generally the player will push a button (originally pull a lever) to spin the tumblers in the machine and hope to stop them in a winning pattern. Most slot machines have a low payout which makes them less high risk than other casino games.

However, the jackpots on slot machine can reach quite a large sum.

Pachinko is a Japanese casino game equivalent to a combination of slot machines and pinball machines in other parts of the world. Pachinko machines are known for the very loud sounds. Gambling is illegal in Japan but Pachinko parlors operate through a legal loophole.

Fan-Tan is a popular Chinese gambling game that involves counting objects (usually beans) when divided by four. Fan-Tan is a game of pure chance as players must guess how many objects remain. The croupier will place the beans or other objects in the center of the table and cover them with a bowl.

Then the bets are placed where the players will have to guess how many items remain when the croupier removes them in groups of four. The possible choices are 1, 2, 3 or 4. However, the 4 may sometimes be represented by 0.

Mauscheln is a popular card game in Germany. It was very popular amongst German soldiers in World War I because of its typically low stakes and simple playing. There are many different styles of play and uses a 32-card German deck, though a 52-card deck can also be used.

Pai gow is a Chinese gambling game traditionally played with tiles or dominoes but can also be played with cards. The aim of the game is to form to hands with the tiles that both beat the dealer's two hands. If the players loses both hands, they lose the bet. If one hand wins and one loses, it is a push. The only way to win the bet is to have both hands beat the dealer's two.