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

A number lands twice in a row and the table goes quiet. It feels like something happened. We have 2,471,074 consecutive live spins on record, so instead of guessing, here is the count — and what the same record says about how long numbers go missing.

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.

Two figures agreeing to a hundredth of a percent tells you the wheels we record behave exactly as a fair wheel should. A repeat is not rare and not a glitch: on a table running a spin every 30 seconds you will see one roughly every twenty minutes.

How long numbers go missing

The more interesting question is the opposite one. We measured 2,466,574 gaps — every stretch between two sightings of the same number — and they give four yardsticks worth remembering:

That longest one was 31 on Speed Roulette 2: nearly six hundred spins, about five hours of play, without landing once.

Every table page lists the numbers that have gone longest without landing, live. See a live table →

Which gaps are worth watching

Those yardsticks turn a raw “spins since” figure into something you can read at a glance:

Each spin is still one in 37 for every number, so a long gap is not a countdown. What it gives you is a genuinely unusual event to watch as it unfolds — and with 159 tables running at once, there is almost always one in progress somewhere.

See it on a real table

Every table we track has a page showing exactly this: which numbers have gone longest without landing, how long each outcome has been waiting, how often each number has come up, and the recent results in full.

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