I am looking for some ideas on how you would play a game of chance if you know the number the person would bet on in a game of roulette.
If I decide NOT to include a free choice, I could use LOTTO VISION which I already have converted to a 1-36 layout and force number 14 for example.
But I have ample peeking devices so they can pick any number to bet on.
Current idea(s) so far
disc that looks like roulette wheel
I clearly show how I can make ball move ( magnetic)
I pretend to to rotate behind my back

Show a deck of cards with numbers 0 - 35 on them

Maybe green 0

And red and black numbers as per the roulette wheel

'shuffle' them - and randomly draw a card... you turn over 14... and they reveal they picked 14

Or you get them to stop anywhere and deal - they turn over 14 - and you reveal you predicted 14

Yeah it's a crad trick

But I always like taking them away from the normal deck of cards

In Wizards' Journal #31, Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki shows ways of using wind-up toys to run along a track of playing cards OR to run around a clock or Zodiac or any circle to select a particular predicted outcome. He didn't include a roulette wheel because it was designed for children's magic, but there's no reason why a roulette wheel can't serve as the disc around which either a wind up toy or a magnetic ball can revolve.

In my e-Book "Clown Phobia" from The Wizards' Journal #30, I show how to use a home-made spinning top can be used to select a given color or design. Again this could easily be adapted to a roulette wheel that spins like a top, and always lands on the number of YOUR choice.

Duster,
Thank you for your idea and I actually have cards like that and if there were no other card effects in my set, it would work perfectly.

jimgerrish,
Can you kindly pM me on how I could purchase that?

Other ideas could be a calculator where they clock me and name the number where ball leaves my hand then ask how times ball does full revolutions, ect....
Or I could use a Becker ploy where they THINK they are putting a sticker on a wheel but it is really clear and I have loaded a white one on the number.

So, I have two thoughts on this.

First, you could modify a clock (or create a clock type disc) to look like a roulette wheel and do a modified version of Osterlind's watch routine where a second spectator spins the hand without looking and lands on the correct number.

Second, and this isn't exactly playing a game of chance necessarily, but you could try to send multiple numbers to the spectator and play up the improbability of guessing all of them correctly (getting 3 numbers on a double zero board would be a 1 in 54,872 chance!) then produce a picture of one of those signs from next to the roulette table that shows the previous numbers hit and the numbers on the sign match the numbers the spectator chose. I saw a video of a time prediction that was revealed as a picture of a digital alarm clock. For the life of me I can't remember where I saw it or who did it (I think it was a Penguin Live, maybe?) Anyhow, that's the method I would use. Making up the picture of the sign would be easy enough in Photoshop.

Quade Walker,
Thank you!
I could do something with a dry erase where I mark the correct number, pretend to rub it off then cover with thumb then let them do like you say or just cover whatever they did...
thatmichaelguy,
Clever idea......

Don't forget the betting table:


An image like this could be easily printed on a card, and replace an image of the wheel in most cases. In some presentations this might even be more logical, and for some methods it might be more practical. For example, I would rather do a covert marking on a grid like this than a circle, but it's probably a matter of preference as well. It also gives you a chance to pay with the odd/even red/black style bets, if that interests you. Just another option for your brainstorming.