The advantage of French roulette, slot and bingo over American and European roulette, slot  and bingo is in the additional opportunities available in betting.  In French roulette the player is allowed to place bets that don’t exist in the other versions of the game.  In American and European bingo and roulette the player is betting on the number he thinks the ball will land on.  The numbers may be adjoining each other on the layout.  In French roulette the player is allowed the opportunity to bet of the part of the wheel he thinks the ball will land in.  These are the French and Neighbor bets. The neighbor bets are the neighbors of zero.

The other bets involving the racetrack are the Tiers du Cylindre and the Orphelins bets. The Tiers bets are for the numbers shown in the Tiers section of the racetrack.  It is comprised of six bets covering 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 23, 24, 27, 30, 33 and 36. This bet is sometimes referred to as the “third of the wheel bet”.  The Orphelins bet covers all of the numbers that are included in the Voisins or Tiers bets.  These numbers are shown in the center part of the racetrack. When the player wants to make either of these bets when playing at a roulette table, he should tell the croupier who will place the chips for him. Online, the player clicks on the relevant section of the racetrack like as slot game, indicates the amount and the software will show the chips on the layout.