'On a perfect wheel, the ball would always fall in a random way. 'Those conditions are, in effect, imperfections of one sort or another,' explains Bloomberg writer Kit Chellel. They weren't, but the investigation did reveal that, under perfect conditions, the game can be bested, as long as the wheel itself is ideal. Tosa - that's a pseudonym - is so good at winning, in fact, that the London police launched a full-scale against him and two colleagues back in 2004, under the theory that they'd been using some type of computerized device to cheat. 'Otherwise physicists would make a fortune at casinos.'īeating roulette and Stephen Hawking? Wildly impressive. 'It is practically impossible to predict the number that will come up,' Hawking once wrote about the game, as noted in the Bloomberg profile of Tosa. That man's name is Niko Tosa, a Croatian math and physics savant who travels the world, sometimes with fake documents and wearing some type of disguise, to win the game that even Stephen Hawking once said is pretty much impossible to beat. We know what you're thinking: isn't roulette a game of chance? To most people, sure, but apparently not to everyone.Īccording to Bloomberg, there's a man out there who's beaten the game, no computer required - and all he says it took was a little practice.
