Atlassino Academy · Other tables · Lesson 9
Big Six: the wheel of fortune
The Big Six, or Rueda de la Fortuna, by the national catalogue of games of Chile: a tall wheel of 54 places, six numbers on the layout, and what a chip on each one costs.
A tall wheel, 54 places, and six numbers on the layout. What does a chip on each number cost?
The short answer
Each number on the Big Six is paid that many to one, from 1 to 1 up to 40 to 1, and each is carried by a fixed count of the 54 places on the disc. Put the two together and the cheapest chip is on the 1, at 11.11% of the chip on average; the dearest is on one of the two 40s, at 24.07%.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
This wheel is quick to learn and easy to misjudge. The numbers on the layout tell you what a chip is paid; how many places carry each number tells you how often. The price is the two together, and that is what this page counts.
The wheel and its 54 places
The Big Six, also called the Rueda de la Fortuna, is played against the casino, on a wheel that stands upright. A disc turns on a central axle mounted on a pillar, and a pointer, the tope, shows the place that is paid. The disc is marked with 54 places, each carrying a number from 1 to 40.
| Number | Places on the disc | Paid | A chip of 10 units is paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 2, two different symbols | 40 to 1 | 400 units |
| 20 | 2 | 20 to 1 | 200 units |
| 10 | 4 | 10 to 1 | 100 units |
| 5 | 7 | 5 to 1 | 50 units |
| 2 | 15 | 2 to 1 | 20 units |
| 1 | 24 | 1 to 1 | 10 units |
Two places of the same number are never set side by side on the disc. The pictures on the disc are only decoration: each chip is paid by the number printed on its play banknote, by the table above.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
The two 40s are drawn differently, and we count them as two different bets. Every other number is one bet, however many places carry it.
One spin, from the bets to the payout
The layout is a half-moon or rectangular table with a box for each number on the disc. Chips go down before the croupier spins and calls “no más apuestas”; after the call no chip can be placed, taken back, made smaller or made larger.
Bets
Chips on the numbers marked on the layout, before “no más apuestas”.
The spin
The croupier spins the disc, in either direction, at least three times round.
The pointer
The disc stops, and the pointer shows the number that is paid.
Settled
Chips on every other number are collected; chips on that number are paid by the pay table.
The disc has to go round at least three times for the spin to count. A spin of fewer than three turns is void: the croupier spins again and asks the players whether they want to change their bets. You may not stop the disc yourself. If the pointer comes to rest between two places, that spin is void too, in the same way. The numbers that do not come up lose; the croupier collects those chips and pays the ones on the number under the pointer. The limits of the game are posted in the room.
What a chip on each number costs
The catalogue prints what each number pays, not what it costs. The table below is our own count: one chip on the number, every one of the 54 places in turn under the pointer.
| Number | Places the chip is paid on, of 54 | Of every 54 chips, the wheel keeps | Cost, on average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 6 | 11.11% |
| 2 | 15 | 9 | 16.67% |
| 5 | 7 | 12 | 22.22% |
| 10 | 4 | 10 | 18.52% |
| 20 | 2 | 12 | 22.22% |
| 40 | 1 | 13 | 24.07% |
A chip on the 1 is paid on 44.44% of spins and costs the least. Higher numbers pay more but sit on fewer places, and the price climbs, unevenly: the 10 is cheaper than the 5, and the 5 and the 20 cost exactly the same. One 40 is the dearest chip on the layout.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
A wheel that spins again as soon as the chips are paid makes it easy to keep going. Decide the money and the time for the evening before you sit down, and leave when either runs out. A spin that took your chip is not owed back by the next one.
If the money on the table starts to feel like money you need, stop for the evening. The box below is there for exactly that.
If it stops being fun
If gambling stops being fun, the SCJ self-exclusion applies in every casino in the country. Minimum entry age: 18 (age of majority under Law 19.221; Law 19.995 bars minors from gaming rooms). The casino may ask for an official ID. More on responsible gaming.
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Practice: pay the spin, compare two chips
Level 1 shows where the pointer stopped and your chips on the layout, and asks what they come to. Level 2 shows two chips of the same size and asks which costs less. The 10 units on each number is an example bet, not a suggested bet.
Nothing is bet here, and nothing is random. Each question is a set picture, and the answer is worked out from the same rules and the same count as the rest of the page.
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Big Six
- The pointer20
- On the 2010 units
- On the 110 units
What do your chips come to on balance?
- 20 units lost on balance Not this one. Not every chip here is lost: one of them sits on the number under the pointer.
- 190 units paid on balance The pointer is on the 20, so the chip there is paid 20 to 1; the chip on the 1 is lost.
- 200 units paid on balance Not this one. “To 1” counts the payout alone: the chip itself stays yours and is not part of it.
Each number on the wheel is paid that many to one when the pointer stops on it: the 1 at 1 to 1, the 2 at 2 to 1, and so on up to 40 to 1. A chip on any other number is lost.
Big Six
- A chip on the 55 to 1
- A chip on the 2020 to 1
Which chip costs less, spin for spin?
- The 5 Not this one. Of every 54 chips on the 5 the wheel keeps 12 on average, and of every 54 on the 20, 12.
- The 20 Not this one. Of every 54 chips on the 5 the wheel keeps 12 on average, and of every 54 on the 20, 12.
- They cost the same Of every 54 chips on the 5 the wheel keeps 12 on average, and of every 54 on the 20, 12. The same price, from two different payouts.
A price comes from two things together: what the number pays, and how many of the 54 places on the disc carry it. A larger payout on fewer places can cost more, or less, or the same.
Every question in the practice run is worked out the same way: the wheel is put through the same rules and the same count as the rest of the page, and the answer comes out of that, not out of anybody’s memory.
How the practice run works
Where the questions come from. Every answer is worked out when the page is built, by the catalogue’s pay table and our count over the 54 places. The wrong answers are named mistakes: the chip counted into its own payout, a lost chip forgotten, a larger payout taken for a lower price.
One strip, and no rounds. Every square on the strip is one question of this lesson, and all of the squares are there from the start. Your first answer fills the square it belongs to; when the squares of one level are full, the next level begins by itself. Practising a question you got wrong turns its cross into “fixed in practice” and does not change the count, because only first answers count.
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Check yourself
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Four quick ones. Pick an answer, then check it. No timer, no points: just whether it stuck.
Back to the question we opened with. From 11.11% of the chip on the 1 to 24.07% on one 40. What a number pays is printed on the layout; what it costs is that payout set against the places that carry it.
Further reading
18+ across Chile · Play responsibly · the help box is further up this page
- Catálogo de Juegos, II.3: Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna · Superintendencia de Casinos de JuegoThe regulator’s rules for the wheel: the 54 places on the disc, the call that closes the bets, the three turns and the pay table.
How it’s worked out
Rules, numbers, sources and hosts
Where the rules come from. Everything on this page follows section II.3 of the national catalogue of games of the Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ), one set of rules for every casino in Chile. Which rooms put out a Big Six is not in any document we read.
Numbers. Every price is worked out exactly: one chip on a number, each of the 54 places in turn under the pointer, paid by the catalogue’s table. Nothing here is typed in by hand.
Our reading. The catalogue gives the 40 two places with two different symbols, and the other numbers places with the same symbol. We count a chip on one of the two 40 symbols as covering its own place, one of 54. The catalogue says only that two places of the same number are never side by side, not in what order the places run, so the disc is not drawn here. No document we read prints how many spins a wheel makes in an hour, so there is no price of an hour.
Sources. Every rule on this page carries a button with the sentence it rests on, in the catalogue’s own Spanish, the publisher who wrote that sentence and the date we read it.
Hosts. Maya and Leo are illustrated characters. Their backstories, a former floor supervisor and a former dealer, are written for the course: neither is a real person, and neither speaks for any casino. The rules and numbers on this page come from the sources it cites, not from their experience.
No promise. Every number on the wheel has a price. Knowing the price lets you choose what you pay; nothing on this page changes where the pointer stops, and nothing here says how an evening at the wheel would end.
The pay table
El pago de las apuestas dependerá de la cantidad de veces que la suerte o símbolo apostado indique, que debe estar claramente establecida tanto en el disco como en el paño.Free translation: The payment of bets shall depend on the number of times indicated by the chance or symbol bet on, which must be clearly stated both on the disc and on the layout.
Tabla de pagos Símbolos del premio mayor, valor 40. Símbolo para premio de valor 20 Símbolo para premio de valor 10 Símbolo para premio de valor 5 Símbolo para premio de valor 2 Símbolo para premio de valor 1Free translation: Pay table Jackpot symbols, value 40. Symbol for prize of value 20 Symbol for prize of value 10 Symbol for prize of value 5 Symbol for prize of value 2 Symbol for prize of value 1
40 a 1 20 a 1 10 a 1 5a1 2a1 1 a 1 (a la par)Free translation: 40 to 1 20 to 1 10 to 1 5a1 2a1 1 to 1 (even money)
Las figuras que no aparezcan son las perdedoras.Free translation: The figures that do not appear are the losing ones.
el croupier recoge las apuestas perdedoras y realiza el pago de las apuestas ganadorasFree translation: the dealer collects the losing bets and pays the winning bets
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
Three turns
Accionar el disco, el que debe girar al menos tres veces sobre su eje para considerar el giro como válido.Free translation: Set the disc in motion; it must spin at least three times on its axis for the spin to be considered valid.
Si el disco o rueda da menos de tres giros, entonces se debe anular la jugada. El croupier debe girar nuevamente y preguntar a los jugadores si quieren modificar o hacer una nueva apuestaFree translation: If the disc or wheel makes fewer than three turns, the play must be annulled. The dealer must spin again and ask the players whether they want to change their bets or place a new bet
No puede detener el giro natural de la rueda o disco.Free translation: The dealer may not stop the natural spin of the wheel or disc.
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
Between two places
Cuando accidentalmente el tope queda entre dos suertes, se debe anular la jugada. El croupier debe girar nuevamente y preguntar a los jugadores si quieren modificar o hacer una nueva apuestaFree translation: When the stopper accidentally comes to rest between two outcomes, the play must be annulled. The dealer must spin again and ask the players whether they want to change their bets or place a new bet
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
The disc
Se usa un disco montado en un eje central a un pilar en forma vertical, el que tiene un tope que indica la suerte ganadora.Free translation: A disc is used, mounted on a central axle on a vertical pillar, which has a stopper that indicates the winning outcome.
En el disco están claramente indicadas las 54 distintas suertesFree translation: The 54 different chances are clearly indicated on the disc
2 Símbolos de distinto dibujo o diagrama del premio mayor, valor 40Free translation: 2 Symbols of different design or diagram for the top prize, value 40
2 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 20Free translation: 2 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 20
4 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 10Free translation: 4 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 10
7 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 5Free translation: 7 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 5
15 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 2Free translation: 15 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 2
24 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 1Free translation: 24 Symbols of the same design or diagram for the prize of value 1
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
Against the casino
El Big Six es un juego de azar cuya característica esencial reside en que los participantes juegan contra el casinoFree translation: Big Six is a game of chance whose essential characteristic is that the participants play against the casino
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
The disc
Se usa un disco montado en un eje central a un pilar en forma vertical, el que tiene un tope que indica la suerte ganadora.Free translation: A disc is used, mounted on a central axle on a vertical pillar, which has a stopper that indicates the winning outcome.
En el disco están claramente indicadas las 54 distintas suertesFree translation: The 54 different chances are clearly indicated on the disc
2 Símbolos de distinto dibujo o diagrama del premio mayor, valor 40Free translation: 2 Symbols of different design or diagram for the top prize, value 40
2 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 20Free translation: 2 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 20
4 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 10Free translation: 4 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 10
7 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 5Free translation: 7 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 5
15 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 2Free translation: 15 Symbols of the same drawing or design for the prize of value 2
24 Símbolos de igual dibujo o diagrama para el premio de valor 1Free translation: 24 Symbols of the same design or diagram for the prize of value 1
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
Never side by side
En ningún caso dos suertes del mismo valor pueden estar dispuestas de manera correlativa en los lugares o celdas.Free translation: In no case may two outcomes of the same value be placed next to each other in the places or cells.
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
The pictures are decoration
Los símbolos que tiene el disco son únicamente decorativos y las apuestas se pagan por el número que indica cada billete de fantasía, de acuerdo a lo señalado en la tabla anterior.Free translation: The symbols on the disc are purely decorative and bets are paid according to the number shown on each fantasy banknote, as indicated in the table above.
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
Bets on the layout
Se usa una mesa cuya superficie es de forma de media luna o rectangular, cubierta con un paño en el cual están demarcadas las opciones para jugar las distintas suertes que tiene el disco.Free translation: A table is used whose surface is half-moon or rectangular in shape, covered with a cloth on which the options for playing the different outcomes of the disc are marked.
Antes que el croupier gire el disco o rueda y anuncie “no más apuestas”, los jugadores pueden realizar sus apuestas. Desde entonces, ninguna postura puede ser colocada sobre el paño.Free translation: Before the dealer spins the disc or wheel and announces "no more bets", players may place their bets. From then on, no bet may be placed on the cloth.
el croupier debe girar el disco o rueda en cualquier dirección, anunciando “no más apuestas”.Free translation: the dealer must spin the disc or wheel in either direction, announcing "no more bets".
No puede realizar más apuestas, ni retirar, disminuir o aumentar su apuesta, después del “no más apuestas”.Free translation: You may not make further bets, nor withdraw, reduce or increase your bet, after "no more bets".
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
Three turns
Accionar el disco, el que debe girar al menos tres veces sobre su eje para considerar el giro como válido.Free translation: Set the disc in motion; it must spin at least three times on its axis for the spin to be considered valid.
Si el disco o rueda da menos de tres giros, entonces se debe anular la jugada. El croupier debe girar nuevamente y preguntar a los jugadores si quieren modificar o hacer una nueva apuestaFree translation: If the disc or wheel makes fewer than three turns, the play must be annulled. The dealer must spin again and ask the players whether they want to change their bets or place a new bet
No puede detener el giro natural de la rueda o disco.Free translation: The dealer may not stop the natural spin of the wheel or disc.
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
Between two places
Cuando accidentalmente el tope queda entre dos suertes, se debe anular la jugada. El croupier debe girar nuevamente y preguntar a los jugadores si quieren modificar o hacer una nueva apuestaFree translation: When the stopper accidentally comes to rest between two outcomes, the play must be annulled. The dealer must spin again and ask the players whether they want to change their bets or place a new bet
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
The pay table
El pago de las apuestas dependerá de la cantidad de veces que la suerte o símbolo apostado indique, que debe estar claramente establecida tanto en el disco como en el paño.Free translation: The payment of bets shall depend on the number of times indicated by the chance or symbol bet on, which must be clearly stated both on the disc and on the layout.
Tabla de pagos Símbolos del premio mayor, valor 40. Símbolo para premio de valor 20 Símbolo para premio de valor 10 Símbolo para premio de valor 5 Símbolo para premio de valor 2 Símbolo para premio de valor 1Free translation: Pay table Jackpot symbols, value 40. Symbol for prize of value 20 Symbol for prize of value 10 Symbol for prize of value 5 Symbol for prize of value 2 Symbol for prize of value 1
40 a 1 20 a 1 10 a 1 5a1 2a1 1 a 1 (a la par)Free translation: 40 to 1 20 to 1 10 to 1 5a1 2a1 1 to 1 (even money)
Las figuras que no aparezcan son las perdedoras.Free translation: The figures that do not appear are the losing ones.
el croupier recoge las apuestas perdedoras y realiza el pago de las apuestas ganadorasFree translation: the dealer collects the losing bets and pays the winning bets
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna
What the room posts
Dichos montos deberán ser informados en las salas de juego, a través de la señalización correspondiente respecto de cada juego.Free translation: Those amounts must be posted in the gaming rooms, by means of the corresponding signage for each game.
Section II.3 Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna; I. Cuestiones generales
Los montos de las apuestas de cada juego deben ser informados en las salas de juego.Free translation: The bet amounts for each game must be posted in the gaming rooms.