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A revolver, used in Russian roulette.
A revolver, used in Russian roulette.

Russian roulette is a potentially lethal game in which participants place a cartridge in only some—typically one—of the six chambers of a revolver. The cylinder is spun and closed so that the location of the round or rounds are unknown. Participants would then aim the revolver at their own heads and pull the trigger, risking a likely death from the gunshot wound. It was famously portrayed in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter as a form of gambling, but the extent of real life gambling based on this activity is unknown. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Russian roulette is a game played with a revolver. ... Image File history File linksMetadata SW-629. ... Image File history File linksMetadata SW-629. ... For other uses, see Revolver (disambiguation). ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Revolver (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Deer Hunter. ...


The roulette in the name is in reference to the real gambling game of roulette since it also involves risk taking and the spinning of the revolver's cylinder is reminiscent of the spinning of the roulette wheel. Roulette is a casino and gambling game named after the French word meaning small wheel. In the game a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular surface running around the circumference of the wheel. ...


The form of the game can be as varied as the participants or their motives (displays of bravado, suicide etc.), but typically a single round is placed in a six-shot revolver resulting in a 1/6 (or 17%) chance of the revolver discharging the round. The revolver's cylinder can either be spun again to reset the game conditions or the trigger can be pulled again, increasing the odds with every trigger pull; 1/5 (20%) for the second trigger pull and 1/4 (25%) for the third etc. Using revolvers with fewer cylinders (typically five) or increasing the number or rounds are other variations that increase the risk. For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ...

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History

Legends abound regarding the invention of Russian roulette. Most of these, predictably, take place in Russia, or occur among Russian soldiers.


In one legend, 19th century Russian prisoners were forced to play the game while the prison guards bet on the outcome. In another version, desperate and suicidal officers in the Russian army played the game to impress each other. Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...


The earliest known use of the term is from "Russian Roulette", a short story by Georges Surdez in the January 30, 1937, issue of Collier's Magazine. A Russian sergeant in the French Foreign Legion asks the narrator, is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Colliers Weekly was a United States magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ... Legionnaire redirects here. ...

“ "Feldheim… did you ever hear of Russian Roulette?" When I said I had not, he told me all about it. When he was with the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, and things were cracking up, so that their officers felt that they were not only losing prestige, money, family, and country, but were being also dishonoured before their colleagues of the Allied armies, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, anywhere, at the table, in a cafe, at a gathering of friends, remove a cartridge from the cylinder, spin the cylinder, snap it back in place, put it to his head, and pull the trigger. There were five chances to one that the hammer would set off a live cartridge and blow his brains all over the place. Sometimes it happened, sometimes not. ”

Whether Tsarist (also 'Czarist') officers actually played Russian roulette is unclear. In a text on the Czarist officer corps, John Bushnell, a Russian history expert at Northwestern University, cited two near-contemporary memoirs by Russian army veterans: The Duel (1905) by Aleksandr Kuprin and From Double Eagle to Red Flag (1921) by Pyotr Krasnov. Both books tell of officers' suicidal and outrageous behaviour, but Russian roulette is not mentioned in either text. If the game did originate in real life behavior and not fiction, it is unlikely that it started with the Russian military. The standard sidearm issued to Russian officers from 1895 to 1930 was the Nagant M1895 revolver. A double-action revolver, the Nagant's cylinder spins clockwise until the hammer is cocked. While the cylinder does not swing out as in modern hand-ejector style double action revolvers, it can be spun around to randomize the result. However, it holds seven cartridges and not six, which throws some doubt on the accuracy of the reference in Collier's. It is possible that Russian officers shot six and kept the seventh cartridge live. Due to the deeply seated bullets unique to the Nagant's cartridge and that the primers are concealed, it would be very difficult to tell from the outside where the live round was and which were spent; this would add to the uncertainty of the results. Combatants Central Powers, Bulgaria Romania, Russia Commanders General Falkenhayn General Mackensen General Averescu, General Zaionchovsky Strength 450,000 600,000 Casualties 60,000 roughly 330,000 (50% POWs) The Romanian Campaign was a campaign in the Balkans theatre of World War I fought between Romania and Russia against armies of... Tsar (Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian цар, Russian  , in scientific transliteration respectively car and car ), occasionally spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English, is a Slavonic term designating certain monarchs. ... Northwestern University (NU) is a selective private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois. ... Kuprin in Gatchina (cartoon from the 1910s) Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Александр Иванович Куприн, September 7, 1870 in the Penza Oblast - August 25, 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer whose best known novellas include Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), The Duel (1905), Junior Captain Rybnikov (1906), Emerald (1907), and The... Ataman Pyotr Krasnov Pyotr Nikolayevich Krasnov (Петр Николаевич Краснов in Russian) (September 22 (10 O.S.), 1869 — January 17, 1947), sometimes referred to in English as Peter Krasnov, was Lieutenant General of the Russian army when the revolution broke out in 1917, and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement afterwards. ... The Nagant M1895 Revolver was designed and produced by a Belgian industrialist, Léon Nagant. ...


The only reference to anything like Russian roulette in Russian literature is in a book entitled A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov (1840, translated by Vladimir Nabokov in 1958), in which a similar act is performed by a Serbian soldier in the story The Fatalist: the dare however is not named as "Russian roulette". Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union. ... A Hero of Our Time (Russian: ) is a short novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. ... Mikhail Lermontov in 1837 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), (October 15, 1814–July 27, 1841), a Russian Romantic writer and poet, sometimes called the poet of the Caucasus, was the most important presence in the Russian poetry from Alexander Pushkins death until his own four years later, at the age... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899, Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American, Academy Award nominated author. ... Not to be confused with Republika Srpska. ...


Variations

It is assumed, probably solely based on some cinematic depictions, that two players either take turns spinning and firing the revolver so that each successive turn has an equal probability of failure (1/6 or 17%) or that the players simply take turns without spinning the cylinders until one is shot. In the latter case however, each players has an equal chance of success or failure (50%) and one player will die with the contest lasting at most 6 turns. In the former case the game could continue indefinitely and gamblers could presumable only wager on which players will survive and how many turns the game will last.


Semi-automatic pistol

Using a semi-automatic pistol, unlike a revolver, will automatically load and fire a round eliminating any chance. Use of a semi-automatic pistol is usually due to misunderstanding. Firing a semi-automitic pistol thinking it is empty when in fact it was loaded would not constitute a variation of the Russian roulette, but mere a shooting accident. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


The humorous Darwin Awards, who grants the dubious honor to those who have "removed themselves from the human gene pool because of an act of extreme foolishness", awarded a man who "played" Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol, apparently unaware that his odds of the firearm discharging were not one in six but 100%.[1] A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek honor named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. ...


Simulation (toy gun)

A Toy gun that simulates the game and game conditions (rotating cylinder with six "chambers" or chances of "firing") can be employed as a non-lethal version of the game. Examples include cap guns with a rotating cylinder and a single loaded cap, a Nerf gun with a rotating cylinder (such as the Maverick Rev-6 [2] ), an electronic toy gun similar to those used for laser tag, or a video game light gun connected to a computer programmed for Russian roulette simulation. There is also a toy version available in Japan that uses a balloon, with one chamber containing a pin used to pop the balloon. All players put money in the pot. Each player in turn pulls the trigger, and when the gun discharges, the person holding the gun is eliminated from the game. The last player remaining wins the pot. Cap gun This is a display of Nichols Industries cap guns, inclusing some of the rarest models. ... For other uses, see Nerf (disambiguation). ... Soldiers of the 2e REI training with laser tag equipment. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... // Wikibooks Poker has more about this subject: Betting This article describes the common terms, rules, and procedures in the game, but does not cover the strategic impact of betting. ...


Metaphor

The term is also used in reference to any potentially lethal form of risk taking, where the person is in effect gambling with their life. See the story of the three Cambodians in Notable Russian roulette incidents where a land mine was used.


Drinking game

In reference to the film The Deer Hunter, a six pack of canned beer is used in a slightly more humorous version known as "beer hunter". A third party shakes one can of the beer vigorously and places it back in the six pack, then two contestants who have no knowledge of the shaken beers placement draw a beer from the six pack. They place the can of beer as close to their head as possible and open the pop top. The shaken beer will spray the loser while the other five beers are uneventful. This game is most often played in public where the loser is openly ridiculed. For other uses, see Deer Hunter. ...


Notable Russian roulette incidents

There are numerous reported incidents[vague] of Russian Roulette. Many are teenagers,[citation needed] with some players as young as 14.[2]

  • Russian Avant-Garde poet Vladimir Mayakovsky played Russian Roulette with himself on April 14, 1930, and died at 10:15am. In observance of the Russian superstition that before death a man must put on clean linen, he changed his shirt before playing. (cited in The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky edited by Patricia Blake et al.)
  • British author Graham Greene claimed that in his youth he often played Russian Roulette as a means to provide "excitement and get away from the boredom." But he later decided that "it was no more exciting than taking aspirin for a headache."[3]
  • In his autobiography, Malcolm X says that during his burglary career he once played Russian roulette, pulling the trigger three times in a row to convince his partners in crime that he wasn't afraid to die. In the epilogue to the book, Alex Haley states that Malcolm X revealed to him that he palmed the bullet.
  • John Hinckley, Jr., the man who attempted to murder President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was known to play Russian roulette, alone, on two occasions (although neither time he pulled the trigger was the bullet in the firing chamber). Hinckley also took a picture of himself in 1980 pointing a gun at his head.[citation needed]
  • In 1999, three Cambodian men all got drunk, and decided to play Russian Roulette with a land mine, each taking turns to stamp on the mine. The three died in a great explosion minutes later. They were later posthumously awarded a Darwin Award.[5]
  • On June 12, 2001, Clinton Pope, a 16-year-old with a criminal record who had been drinking for the night, fired a bullet into his face while playing Russian roulette before his friends in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. He was sent to a hospital and was in critical but stable condition.[6]
  • On October 5, 2003, psychological illusionist Derren Brown played Russian roulette on British television Channel 4. The stunt was broadcast live with a slight delay allowing the program to cut to a black screen if anything had gone wrong. The stunt was condemned by some as being irresponsible, and a statement by the police that they had been informed of the arrangements in advance and were satisfied that "at no time was anyone at risk"[8] made it clear that the incident was at least partially a hoax. However, it was proved on the prerecorded segment of the program that at point blank range even a blank cartridge is potentially lethal, and may cause concussion to the head, deafness or burns. Exactly what precautions Brown took to avoid this are still unknown.

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Depictions in fiction

In film

Year Film
1948 Unfaithfully Yours Flag of the United States
1955 Smiles of a Summer Night Flag of Sweden
1970 El Topo Flag of Mexico
1975 Sholay Flag of India
1978 The Deer Hunter Flag of the United States
1993 Sonatine Flag of Japan
1995 La Haine Flag of France
1997 Airbag Flag of Spain
1997 L.A. Confidential Flag of the United States
1997 One Eight Seven Flag of the United States
2003 A Man Apart Flag of the United States Flag of Germany
2004 Starsky and Hutch Flag of the United States
2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Flag of the United States
2006 13 Tzameti Flag of Georgia (country)
2006 Lage Raho Munna Bhai Flag of India
2007 Live! Flag of the United States

The 1948 film Unfaithfully Yours features a dream sequence where the main character challenges his wife's lover to a game of Russian Roulette. Unfaithfully Yours is a 1948 film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell and Rudy Vallee. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night) is a 1955 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... For the Puerto Rican musician, see Antonio Caban Vale. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... Sholay (Hindi: शोले, Urdu: شعلے) (advertised in English as Embers or Flames) is the biggest blockbuster in the history of Bollywood, Indias Hindi film industry. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... For other uses, see Deer Hunter. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... For the piano piece by Maurice Ravel, see Sonatine (Ravel). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... La Haine (the hate) is a French black-and-white film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, released in 1995. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... This article is about the film. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... One Eight Seven (also known as 187) is a 1997 drama / crime / thriller film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught up with gang trouble in an urban high school. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A Man Apart - Poster 1 A Man Apart - Poster 2 A Man Apart is a 2003 action film starring Vin Diesel and directed by F. Gary Gray. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 American comedy/action film directed by Todd Phillips. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... For other uses, see Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... George Babluani as Sébastien 13 Tzameti is a 2005 film written and directed by Georgian Géla Babluani. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Georgia. ... Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi:  , IPA: ; English: ) is a 2006 Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... Live! is a 2007 film starring Eva Mendes and David Krumholtz. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Unfaithfully Yours is a 1948 film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell and Rudy Vallee. ...


In Ingmar Bergman's comedy Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955, Count Carl Magnus Malcolm challenge his wife's lover, lawyer Fredrik Egerman, to a game of Russian Roulette. The lawyer looses, but the count have loaded his service revolver with a blank cartridge.   (IPA: in Swedish; usually IPA: in English) (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish film, stage, and opera director. ... Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night) is a 1955 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. ...


The 1970 Mexican film El Topo portrayed Russian Roulette as a religious practice. Each member of the congregation would fire the gun at his head, and it was declared a miracle when the firearm did not discharge. (It was later revealed that the bullet was a blank.) For the Puerto Rican musician, see Antonio Caban Vale. ...


The 1975 Bollywood blockbuster Sholay, meaning "Flames", depicts Russian roulette. Angry with his three colleagues for their cowardice, Gabbar Singh empties three out of six bullets by firing the gun into the air, spinning the chamber between each round to give all a 50-50 chance. He aims at each of the three in turn, threatening the last, "Tera Kya hoga re Kalia?" ("What will happen to you, Kalia?"). Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. ... Sholay (Hindi: शोले, Urdu: شعلے) (advertised in English as Embers or Flames) is the biggest blockbuster in the history of Bollywood, Indias Hindi film industry. ... Gabbar Singh, played by the late Amjad Khan, is the famous villain of the 1975 Bollywood blockbuster film Sholay (Flames). ...


Russian Roulette was made famous worldwide three years later with the movie The Deer Hunter, the Best Picture winning movie that followed the lives of three men from a small steel town as they enlist in the Vietnam War. The men are played by Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Christopher Walken. The film shows very little combat footage, and cuts to the men being captured by Viet Cong soldiers and forced to play Russian Roulette as their captors gambled on the results. They are caged and forced to play against each other. Their captors demand an especially brutal variation of the game: the game is played until all but one contestant is killed. The game takes place in a bamboo room above where the other prisoners are held, so that the losers' blood drips down on future contestants. According to one website claiming to offer insight into the practice of Russian roulette, Valerie Douglas, whose father's cousin and father were in the Vietnam War states that Russian roulette occurred both for gambling and murder. [3][verification needed] Several teen deaths following the movie's release caused police and the media to blame the film's depiction of Russian roulette, saying that it inspired the youths.[citation needed] For other uses, see Deer Hunter. ... // The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. ... John Savage (born John Youngs on August 25, 1949 in Old Bethpage, New York) is an American film actor, producer, production manager and composer. ... Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor. ...


Several films feature Russian roulette being used as an interrogation technique. Both 1997 film L.A. Confidential and 2003 film A Man Apart, feature law enforcement playing Russian roulette with a suspect until they reveal information. This is spoofed in 2004's remake of Starsky and Hutch, and again in the 2005 comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. This article is about the film. ... A Man Apart - Poster 1 A Man Apart - Poster 2 A Man Apart is a 2003 action film starring Vin Diesel and directed by F. Gary Gray. ... Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 American comedy/action film directed by Todd Phillips. ... For other uses, see Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (disambiguation). ...


An interesting game of Russian roulette in the 1993 Japanese film Sonatine turns out to be a joke when the gun is found to not be loaded. Japanese cinema (映画; Eiga) has a history in Japan that spans more than 100 years. ... For the piano piece by Maurice Ravel, see Sonatine (Ravel). ...


For the 2006 noir film 13 Tzameti, director Géla Babluani invented a different version of the game, played as a means of underground high-stakes gambling where players stand in a circle and discharge their firearms into the successive player's head, one hammer pull per round with each round increasing in the number of cartridges in the revolver's chamber. This version bares closer resemblance to Russian Poker, than Russian Roulette. George Babluani as Sébastien 13 Tzameti is a 2005 film written and directed by Georgian Géla Babluani. ... Géla Babluani (1979-) is a Georgian-French film director. ...


The 2007 film Live! by director Bill Guttentag depicts a television station's attempt to launch a game show based on Russian roulette. Six contestants can win 5 million dollars each if they play Russian roulette on live television. Live! is a 2007 film starring Eva Mendes and David Krumholtz. ...


In television

Russian roulette inspired a TV game show of the same name. Players stood on trapdoors, arranged in a circle, and following rounds of answering questions, a spotlight would travel around the circle (mimicking the spinning of the cylinder of a revolver) before stopping on one of the trapdoors. This then opened, dropping the player from sight. Russian Roulette was an American game show hosted by Mark L. Walberg (not to be confused with Mark Wahlberg) that ran in two seasons from June 2002 to 2003, with Burton Richardson as the shows announcer (doing only the opening spiel). ...


Russian roulette features in several animated series, including spirits playing in Dragon Ball Z, and comic animation Drawn Together (The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II, 2005). “DBZ” redirects here. ... Drawn Together is an American animated television series that uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting. ... The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist, Part II is the eighth episode of the animated series Drawn Together. ...


Russian roulette also features in several television series, including The X-Files (Pusher, 1996), and 24 (season three). In the Argentine crime fiction series Epitafios, one character is depicted playing Russian Roulette in order to earn money in several episodes. The X-Files is an American Peabody and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series created by Chris Carter, which first aired on September 10, 1993, and ended on May 19, 2002. ... Pusher is the seventeenth episode of the third season of The X-Files. ... For other uses, see 24 (disambiguation). ... Season Three, also known as Day 3 of the television series 24 premiered in America on October 28, 2003 and aired its season finale on May 25, 2004. ... Epitafios ad. ...


Russian roulette is referred to in several comedy series. In an episode of King of The Hill, Dale lies and tells his wife he was playing the game. She then asks him if he won, and he replies "You're not familiar with the game, are you? Yeah, I won."; while in the Scrubs episode My Screw Up, Dr. Cox suggests to Jordan a Russian roulette in which rounds are placed in all the chambers of the revolver, thus "everybody wins". This article is about the television program. ... This article is about the US sitcom. ... List of Scrubs episodes My Screw Up is the 60th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. ...


In the season 4 episode of Alias, Nocturne a Russian roulette scene was shot but later omitted from the final cut. The extended scene is available on the DVD box set. Alias is an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006, spanning five seasons. ...


In video games

In the video game Metal Gear Solid III: Snake Eater, a young Revolver Ocelot plays a variation of Russian Roulette on his victims. A bullet is inserted in the cylinder of one revolver, at which point it is juggled with two other (unloaded) revolvers. As he juggles the guns, he starts to randomly pull the triggers, until eventually the loaded weapon discharges. At the end of the game he also presents the player with two revolvers, one of which has one bullet in it. The player and Ocelot then rush to one of the guns laying on the ground, and both start firing until the weapon discharges.


Illusion of Gaia features a "Russian Glass club" in Watermia, which has a high-stakes variation of Russian roulette. Five glasses are placed, one of which contains deadly poison, and two players take turns drinking them. Illusion of Gaia ) is an action-RPG video game that was released on January 1, 1994 for the Super NES (SNES). ...


Russian roulette also features in the video game Killer7. killer7 is a video game jointly developed and published by Grasshopper Manufacture and Capcom for the GameCube and PlayStation 2. ...


A foot version of the game can be played in "Torn City," a criminal like game. Players take turns shooting a R&W Revolver at the foot, and the player that loses is sent to the hospital, losing his part of the money pot.


In the game Conflict: Vietnam one of the levels is named Russian Roulette and starts off with captured GI's being forced to play the game by the Viet Cong A Viet Cong soldier, heavily guarded, awaits interrogation following capture in the attacks on Saigon during the festive Tet holiday period of 1968. ...


In music

  • "My Last Words", by Thrash metal group Megadeth, on their album Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
  • "Not Good Enough For Truth In Cliché", by Post-Hardcore band Escape The Fate, on their album "Dying Is Your Latest Fashion".
  • "Full Clip and Russian Roulette" (song) by Skacore band Weapons Of Brass Destruction.
  • The opening theme to the classic Anime "Dirty Pair" is named "Russian Roulette".
  • "Choke on This", on the album Let It Enfold You by the band Senses Fail.
  • "Sugar" by System of a Down from their self-titled album mentions Russian Roulette in the lyric "I play Russian Roulette every day, its a man's sport, with a bullet called life".
  • Australian band British India have a song called "Russian Roulette" on their 2007 album Guillotine. The chorus has the repeated line of "I can show you how to win at Russian Roulette".
  • Battle scene from SBX...Lord Finesse ft. Percee P American mc's freestyle battle. Lord Finesse mentions Russian roulette in the line Playing Russian roulette with automatics.
  • German band Accept has a song called "Russian Roulette" on their 1986 album Russian Roulette.
  • The album Ompa Til Du Dør by Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra contains numerous references not only to Russian Roulette, but the song Resistansen (The Resistance) even describes a cellar where it is played every Friday. During the song Rulett a game of Roulette is actually taking place, and the song Fra Sjåfør til Passasjer (From Driver to Passenger) suggests that a player named Tony, who was the brother of the driver and son of an apparent mafioso, died. The song Bak Et Halleluja (Behind a Hallelujah) reveals that an employee of the family named Dominique, who got Tony to play, was apparently taken to be dumped in the ocean with cement shoes.
  • British Punk Rocker Billy Idol's song "Don't Need a Gun" includes the lyrics, "Don't need a gun / Russian routlette no fun / I don't need a gun / I just need / someone."
  • Shredder Yngwie Malmsteen's "Russian Roulette" on his Unleash the Fury album.

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See also

Roulette is a casino and gambling game named after the French word meaning small wheel. In the game a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular surface running around the circumference of the wheel. ... For other uses, see Deer Hunter. ... In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide is a thought experiment which was independently proposed in 1987 by Hans Moravec and in 1988 by Bruno Marchal, and further developed by Max Tegmark in 1998[1], that attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation...

Notes

  1. ^ 2000 Darwin Award: Gun Safety Training. www.darwinawards.com (2000). Retrieved on November 17, 2007.
  2. ^ Holly Strother, Curiosity about guns can kill, April 1, 2003.
  3. ^ A Writer at Work, 15 August 1969, Radio 4, BBC website.
  4. ^ "Really Old School", Washington Post, December 25, 1998
  5. ^ [1] Darwin Awards website. 29 March, 2007
  6. ^ Teen Wounded Playing Russian Roulette, St. Petersburg Times, June 31, 2001.
  7. ^ Transistorized!, Public Broadcasting Service, 1999.
  8. ^ Roulette gun stunt 'a hoax'. BBC News (2003-10-07). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.

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Russian roulette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2108 words)
Russian roulette is the practice of placing a single round in a revolver, spinning the cylinder and closing it into the firearm without looking, aiming the revolver at one's own head in a suicidal fashion, and pulling the trigger.
On March 29, 2003, Evan Below, a 14-year-old boy, shot and killed himself while playing Russian roulette with a.38-caliber revolver in the kitchen of a friend's house in Casper, Wyoming, U.S. The weapon was taken by the houseowner's son from his mother's bedroom.
Russian roulette is featured heavily in The Deer Hunter (1978), where the main characters are forced to play Russian roulette as prisoners of war and one of the characters almost becomes addicted to it.
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Russian Roulette was an American game show hosted by Mark L. Walberg (not to be confused with Mark Wahlberg) that ran in two seasons from June 2002 to 2003, with Burton Richardson as the show's announcer.
The Russian Roulette studio consists of a circle with six trapdoors, four of which are occupied by the episode's contestants.
A British version of Russian Roulette was made by Granada Television and broadcast as a series of irregular "specials" during 2002-3.
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