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- From: Russel_Mcauliffe@equinox.gen.nz (Russel Mcauliffe)
- Subject: Simple Odds on dice.
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
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- Message-ID: <Russel_Mcauliffe.5w90@equinox.gen.nz>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 01:04:54 +1200
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- I have just been playing drinking games with a friend of mine and we had an
- argument about the odds of wining [losing??!!], and I was wondering if
- anyone could clarify the situation.
-
- The game was a very simple one (you don't need to be at all sober to play)
- and it basically goes like this:-
-
- There are 3 die(dice). You call a number before throwing the die and however
- many times that number comes up (out of the three die) you have to 'skull'
- that many glasses. My friend reckoned that there was a 1 in 6 chance of
- 'skulling' but obviously that was completely wrong. No matter how I tried to
- point out he was wrong, he wouldn't beleive me and as I was [am] quite drunk
- I couldn't come up with a suitable arguement. What I would like to know is
- the odds of throwing a single, a double and a triple of the number.
-
- Any written proof in my argument would be much appreciated.
- Cheers!!!!!
- RJ.
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