Online casino games: from ancient China to the present

Today, online casinos are very popular. Lovers of gambling bribes the opportunity to play on slot machines without leaving home. Most online games are available in two modes: paid and free. On gaming sites presented popular slot machines, table and card games of varying complexity.

Increased interest in online gambling can be explained by the great passion of people for casinos that originated in ancient times. The first gambling games appeared several centuries ago. With their help, many got rich, while others lost everything and became paupers. Today, the number of fans of gambling entertainment has increased hundreds of times. This is due to the emergence of online casinos, where you can play at home in front of your computer.

Interesting fact. Mahjong - the ancient Chinese game, which in the modern world is still popular. All over the world there are mahjong tournaments, and the developers of slots have developed Mahjong Ways 2 thematic slot machine, which you can play for free or for money.

The advantages of online slot machines

1. The opportunity to play online casino at any convenient time. Gaming sites are working around the clock. No need to download the game, the sites are online versions.
2. a wide range of slot machines casinos. You can play any slot machine for as long as you want. There are no queues of players and time constraints.
3. free play. On each site presents paid and free casino slot machines (demo versions).
4.  No need to learn the rules. All online games arranged simply. Each machine has built-in information menu with detailed rules in English (sometimes in Russian).
5. Many online casino games are exact replicas of real machines.

History of gambling

One of the most popular games of the past centuries are dice. The most ancient dice about 400 thousand years. The word gambling comes from the Arabic "azzahr" and translates as dice. Even Roman emperors played dice.

Throwing dice is the second popular pastime. Dice are the interphalangeal joints of a dog or a sheep. The results of each attempt were written on special tablets. During archaeological excavations, figures and drawings of people playing knucklebones have been found.

The third pastime is cards. The homeland of the game is considered India. In ancient times, the deck consisted of 98 cards for 8 suits and had a round shape. The most popular cards were in Italy.

There are references to the god of gambling in Greek myths. They are also described in the literature of the Philippines, India, Japan and Asia.

Roulette appeared in France in 1765. The first wheel was invented by a police officer who decided to make a game where players could not cheat. There is also the opinion that the roulette was an unsuccessful "experiment" of Pascal, who at one time tried to invent the perpetual motion machine.

The first casino opened in 1863 in Monaco, and slot machines were invented in 1895 in the United States.