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Rowntrees Roulette

The desire when playing Russian Roulette is not to die. You take a revolver with one bullet loaded, spin the chamber, point it at your head and fire. My version is less fatal than this (well, usually).

When buying fruit pastilles we all know that everyone wants primerily red or black pastilles. But you cant see through the packaging, and I’ve noticed they don’t like it when you open each tube and discard them until you find one with a reasonable ratio inside. So the only option is to play ‘Rowntrees Roulette’.

Select a packet at random & hope for the best. if you have more blacks or reds than other colours then you’re a winner. More often than not though you end up faced with a sea of green, yellow and orange.

After a google it seems no-one has applied this rather obvious name already, so it seems I’ve invented it!

Anyway, today’s round went very well indeed: