How often does the same roulette number come up twice in a row?

A number just landed twice in a row and the table went quiet. It feels like something happened. We have 2,471,074 consecutive spins on record, so rather than guess, here is the count.

How often a number repeats

Across 2,471,074 pairs of consecutive spins on every table we capture, the same number came up twice in a row 2.71% of the time. A fair single-zero wheel gives 2.70% — one in 37.

Those two figures agreeing to a hundredth of a percent is the whole story. A repeat is not rare, not a glitch and not a sign: it is exactly as common as arithmetic says, and on a table running a spin every 30 seconds you should see one roughly every twenty minutes.

How long numbers actually go missing

The more interesting question is the other one. We measured 2,466,574 gaps — every stretch between two sightings of the same number:

  • 26 spins typical gap
  • 84 spins 9 in 10 are shorter
  • 168 spins 99 in 100 are shorter
  • 597 spins longest we have recorded

That last one was 31 on Speed Roulette 2. Nearly six hundred spins — about five hours of play — without landing once.

So is a missing number due?

No. This is the part every article gets wrong, so plainly: the wheel does not know. After 597 spins without 31, the chance of 31 on the next spin was 1 in 37 — the same as every other number, and the same as it was on spin one.

The reason to watch a long absence is that it is genuinely unusual — the 99th percentile is 168 spins, so anything past that is rarer than one gap in a hundred. That makes it interesting. It does not make it owed.

See it on a real table

Every table we track has a page showing exactly this: which numbers have gone longest without landing, how often each has come up, and the last 120 results in full. Browse all the tables →

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