Voisins du Zéro is a French call bet covering the 17 numbers sitting between 22 and 25 on the betting wheel sectors of a single-zero wheel, placed as nine chips through the racetrack panel on European and French roulette tables.
It stakes just under half the wheel on the zero's neighbourhood in one move.
The Nine-Chip Layout
The bet follows a fixed chip pattern across the single-zero wheel layout:
- Two chips on the 0-2-3 trio
- One chip on the 4/7 split
- One chip on the 12/15 split
- One chip on the 18/21 split
- One chip on the 19/22 split
- One chip on the 32/35 split
- Two chips on the 25-26-28-29 corner
That's nine chips covering 17 numbers in total. Most European and French roulette tables that support announced bets place the whole pattern for you the moment you select "Voisins" from the racetrack or call bets panel, so you don't need to build it split by split.
Multiples of nine scale the whole bet up or down while keeping the same ratio between positions.
What Voisins du Zéro Pays
Because some numbers carry two chips and others carry one, the return depends on exactly where the ball lands, not just whether it lands inside the 17.
Land on 26, part of the two-chip corner, and the corner bet pays 8 to 1: two chips return 18 in total against the nine staked, a net profit equal to the full bet.
A single-chip split number pays out the same way, since splits pay 17 to 1. The two-chip trio (0, 2, 3) pays best, since the trio bet pays 11 to 1 and carries two chips, returning 24 against the nine-chip stake.
Voisins, Tiers, Orphelins
Voisins is one of three standard wheel-sector bets. Tiers covers the twelve numbers on the opposite arc, away from zero.
Orphelins picks up the eight numbers left over between the two, covered separately in the orphelins bet. All three exist because the wheel groups numbers by position, not by the felt's rows and columns.
Voisins du Zéro – FAQ
How many numbers does Voisins du Zéro cover?
Seventeen: the numbers from 22 to 25 as they sit around the zero on the single-zero wheel, placed with nine chips.
Does the neighbours bet lower the house edge?
No. The house edge on a single-zero wheel is 2.70% regardless of which numbers or sectors you back, and Voisins doesn't change that.
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