--- title: "Article index" url: https://180gambler.net/index/ description: "An alphabetical index of every article on games of chance published here, with its field, categories and scope, plus a grouping of the same articles by category." --- # Article index [180Gambler](https://180gambler.net/) Reference on games of chance 180Gambler > Index 12 articles. This page was last modified on 17 August 2026. Every article on this site, listed alphabetically with its field, its categories and a one-line statement of what it covers. The category listing at the foot of the page groups the same articles by subject. ## A to Z Jump to: A · C · D · E · H · P · R · S · T · V *All articles, listed alphabetically with field, categories and scope* | Article | Field | Categories | Scope | |---|---|---|---| | A | | | | | [A history of betting and bookmaking](https://180gambler.net/history-of-betting/) | History | History of gambling | From private wagers between owners to fixed-odds bookmaking and the pari-mutuel pool, and how odds notation developed. | | [A history of lotteries](https://180gambler.net/history-of-lotteries/) | History | History of gambling | Lotteries as public finance, their nineteenth-century collapse under scandal, and their twentieth-century return as state monopolies. | | C | | | | | [Card games and shuffling](https://180gambler.net/card-games-and-shuffling/) | Game mechanics | Game mechanics, Mathematics of chance | Why cards behave differently from dice, how conditional probability works in a dealt game, and what it means for a deck to be properly shuffled. | | D | | | | | [Dice and craps](https://180gambler.net/dice-and-craps/) | Game mechanics | Game mechanics, Mathematics of chance | The thirty-six outcome sample space of two dice, the point probabilities it produces, and how the craps line bets are built from them. | | E | | | | | [Expected value](https://180gambler.net/expected-value/) | Mathematics | Mathematics of chance | Expected value is the average result per unit staked. It is the single number that decides whether a wager is favourable, fair or unfavourable. | | H | | | | | [How games of chance are designed](https://180gambler.net/game-design/) | Mathematics | Mathematics of chance, Game mechanics | Paytable construction, hit frequency, hold targets and volatility: the engineering decisions that turn a random mechanism into a specified game. | | [How regulation developed](https://180gambler.net/regulation/) | Regulation | Regulation, History of gambling | From outright prohibition through licensing regimes to the technical standards that now govern random number generators and payout schedules. | | P | | | | | [Probability and odds](https://180gambler.net/probability-and-odds/) | Mathematics | Mathematics of chance | How probability is measured, how it is written as odds, and why paid odds and true odds are not the same thing. | | R | | | | | [Roulette](https://180gambler.net/roulette/) | Game mechanics | Game mechanics, Mathematics of chance | The wheel layout, the full bet catalogue, and the arithmetic that gives almost every roulette wager the same expected value. | | S | | | | | [Slot machines](https://180gambler.net/slot-machines/) | Game mechanics | Game mechanics, Mathematics of chance | Reel mapping, random number generation, return to player, and why the symbols on a reel strip do not tell you their probabilities. | | T | | | | | [The house edge](https://180gambler.net/house-edge/) | Mathematics | Mathematics of chance | The house edge is the operator's expected share of each unit staked. This article derives it and tabulates it for common wagers. | | V | | | | | [Variance and the long run](https://180gambler.net/variance-and-the-long-run/) | Mathematics | Mathematics of chance | Variance measures how far results scatter around their expectation, and the law of large numbers explains why the scatter loses to the average. | ## Categories ### Mathematics of chance - [Probability and odds](https://180gambler.net/probability-and-odds/) - [Expected value](https://180gambler.net/expected-value/) - [The house edge](https://180gambler.net/house-edge/) - [Variance and the long run](https://180gambler.net/variance-and-the-long-run/) - [How games of chance are designed](https://180gambler.net/game-design/) - [Roulette](https://180gambler.net/roulette/) - [Dice and craps](https://180gambler.net/dice-and-craps/) - [Card games and shuffling](https://180gambler.net/card-games-and-shuffling/) - [Slot machines](https://180gambler.net/slot-machines/) ### Game mechanics - [How games of chance are designed](https://180gambler.net/game-design/) - [Roulette](https://180gambler.net/roulette/) - [Dice and craps](https://180gambler.net/dice-and-craps/) - [Card games and shuffling](https://180gambler.net/card-games-and-shuffling/) - [Slot machines](https://180gambler.net/slot-machines/) ### History of gambling - [A history of lotteries](https://180gambler.net/history-of-lotteries/) - [A history of betting and bookmaking](https://180gambler.net/history-of-betting/) - [How regulation developed](https://180gambler.net/regulation/) ### Regulation - [How regulation developed](https://180gambler.net/regulation/) Categories Mathematics of chance · Game mechanics · History of gambling · Regulation