The Hoca game was very widespread in Europe in the middle of 17th century. English ' E-O' (meaning 'Even' and 'Odd').
Roulette wheel game is sometimes believed to be a mix of two popular games: The Greeks used a shield instead of a chariot wheel but the idea of the game itself remained the same - the wheel or shield stopped and the marked space on the ground against an arrow was considered the winning one.
The mechanism of that 'game' also included an arrow which pointed to one of 10 winning spaces on the ground. The tradition to use a spinning wheel in gaming goes back to the Greco-Roman period when Roman soldiers used to spin a chariot wheel to determine a winner.
