Before the wheel is asked a question, the room has learned its answer: hands, glass, light, and measured breath, all keeping faith with chance.

I have spent a long time in the casino industry. A few years back I was working with live casino and being close enough to the studio floor to understand how much coordination sits behind a game that appears effortless on a screen. The dealer, the equipment, the betting surface, the timing, and the result presentation all have to tell the same story.

That experience made returning to these experiments unusually fun. I wanted to recreate something from that time.

These are personal simulations made for fun. They use fictional money, have no connection to either company, and cannot be used to win or lose real money.

Roulette under the studio lights

Open the roulette table on its own

The roulette game uses a and a full betting layout. The wheel, felt, chips, recent results, and five player balances all share one outcome.

The Blackjack table

Open the blackjack table on its own

The blackjack game follows the European live-table rhythm I remember: the dealer begins with one visible card, each occupied seat completes its turn, and only then does the dealer finish the hand. The table uses a six-deck shoe, stands on soft 17, pays a natural blackjack at 3 to 2, and supports splitting, doubling, insurance, and even money. I kept the turn order strict even in a browser simulation so the pacing stays close to how I remember a real hand being managed.

Your own automatic player can use a built-in strategy or a custom Hard, Soft, and Pairs chart.

The wobbly derby

In 2015 I saw someone turn a progress bar into a horse race. The idea made me laugh, and I wanted one of my own. From the beginning, the requirements were oddly specific: it had to look like cardboard, it had to feel janky, and the horses had to be derpy.

That became The Wobbly Derby. You bet on a track, not a horse, then watch a changing field of crooked cardboard racers lurch toward the finish. I think I managed to fulfill all three requirements.

Cardboard hooves, a crooked track, glue where grace should be. Derpy faces wobble on, in search of victory.

Open The Wobbly Derby on its own

It was the pleasure of turning knowledge from the studio floor into something playful, visual, and small enough to share.

The tables are smaller now, but memory still knows the scale: a turn of light, a dealt-out past, and work once learned by heart becoming play beneath my hands.

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