Other ways to play Russian roulette

This site is the version you pass around the room. Other publishers built their own. The links below go to their sites.

Pass one phone

Here, two to eight people share one phone. One chamber is live. A click stays on that cylinder. A bang loads a new one. With two players left, the cylinder is six chambers and the first pull is 1 in 6. How to play follows the screens. Odds and sudden death cover the numbers.

Solo, in a browser

Two portals host a free game you play on your own, at a computer, instead of handing a phone around.

• Y8 calls its game Russian Roulette. Their page says it is free in the browser and built for a desktop, not a phone.
• Silvergames also hosts one. Their description says you spin a virtual revolver, then pull the trigger or pass it. The aim they give is to last as many turns as you can.

Those rules are theirs, not the cylinder on this site. A click here does not reshuffle. Read their pages for how their spin works.

Against a dealer

Buckshot Roulette, by Mike Klubnika, drops the revolver. You sit across from a dealer, and the gun is a shotgun. The shells are a mix of live rounds and blanks, so you are tracking a known pile instead of one hidden chamber. Items on the table change the next choice. The developer's page calls it a tabletop round of about 15 to 20 minutes, with an AI that plays from what is on the table.

The same game is on Steam as Buckshot Roulette, published by Critical Reflex. It is a solo video game. It is not a party on one phone.

Cups on a table

Some parties skip the screen. They set out drinks, mark one cup, and spin a bottle or a pointer. Whoever it lands on takes that drink. Nobody owns the standard version of that. It is a house rule for adults who are already drinking. This site does not run it, and it does not sell a set.

Same word, different game

Casino roulette is a wheel and a ball. Wikipedia's roulette article is about that game. It has no chamber and no trigger.

A real gun is not a mode of this website. The history page is where the name comes from. The phone version stays a click or a bang.