Roulette is, in my opinion, best game to play where you can turn blind luck into a great casino story to tell your friends.

Recently, my family dragged me down to casinos of Atlantic City. I'm not going to lie to you - I wasn't feeling very lucky and would've much preferred to stay home. Since I was 'forced' to go, my goal was to go into hiding, play slow and steady, kill time and grind it out until my folks were ready to come back home. I thought I had everything covered.

Well, I spent a little time at $10 craps tables, but mostly I played $20 pai gow and then some $15 blackjack. I couldn't for life of me get anything going and instead of treading water, I was bleeding money whole afternoon. After about 4 hours I was down $435, which could've been worse but it was obviously far from result I wanted.

I was close to broke and ready to go home as I met back up with my family. Suddenly I had a crazy idea. "I have to do one more thing before we go. I've gotta go to roulette table." My family gave me an indifferent shrug and followed, as they're mostly slot players and all table games are Greek to them.

The plan was to throw down a few more bucks and try to get back all money I lost in one shot. I went over math in my head as I walked over to roulette table. I was down $435, so I knew a $40 bet at 11-1 could get me back to even. Hopefully.

I found a roulette table and gave $40 to dealer, to which she handed me 8 red nickels. I reached and put all chips on '28 Street'. (It's a three number bet - either 28, 29 or 30 would win for me.) The dealer spun, I stood near roulette wheel, and prayed!

The Riddle of Sphinx

Most of conspiracy theories revolving around Sphinx usually involve its age. The Sphinx is generally accepted to have been built along with Pyramids of Giza around 2500 BC. It is even accepted that face of Sphinx bears likeness of Khafre (Chephren), Pharaoh during that time.

However, there was no written record from that era regarding Sphinx or its construction. In addition, human head of Sphinx is small in relation to rest of body, indicating that head bearing Pharaoh Khafre's likeness could have been carved out of a larger lion's head. These points led some researchers to believe that Sphinx could have been built much earlier by a more ancient civilization, thus starting a whole host of conspiracy theories.

Geologist Dr. Robert Schoch and author John Anthony West made a case that erosion marks on Sphinx appears not to be made by wind or sand, but by water, such as falling rain. They used evidence of other structures in Giza area to prove their point. If this were true, construction of Sphinx could then be dated back to at least 5000 BC, when area still received substantial rainfall, in contrast to desert conditions later on.

In his official website, Director of Giza Monuments Dr. Zahi Hawass provides various points suggesting that evidence used in proving Dr. Schoch's theory is flawed.