For questions on dice, a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers. This makes dice suitable as gambling devices for games like craps, or for use in non-gambling tabletop games.
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What function accurately describes the likelihood of getting X successes when rolling Y dice?
Pardon my statistical illiteracy and feel free to correct any silly/wrong terminology I use in this post.
There is an RPG system called Storytelling where the vast majority of dice rolls are
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probability proof requiring conditional probability
Consider the experiment where two dice are thrown. Let $A$ be the event that the sum of the two dice is 7. For each $i\in\{1,2,3,4,5,6\}$, let $B_i$ be the event that at least one $i$ is thrown.
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Probability of winning blackjack dice game?
I know a little bit about probability but I am not sure how to calculate this:
In a dice game of blackjack, there are two parties. The player and the dealer. The aim of this game is to get as ...
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What are fair point values for Zombie dice?
Described below is a modified version of Zombie dice ( http://www.sjgames.com/dice/zombiedice/ ) which the kids and I play.
As in the original game, the idea is to sequentially roll sets of 3 ...
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“8 Dice arranged as a Cube” Face-Sum Problem
I found this here:
Sum Problem
Given eight dice. Build a $2\times 2\times2$ cube, so that the sum of the points on each side is the same.
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What is the probability of rolling a 1 on the Catenative Doomsday Dice Cascader?
As seen here. Assume that each cascader bubble begins with a d6, as opposed to being determined by the prime bubble along with the number of cascader bubbles; the scene makes it ambiguous.
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Determining the probability of throwing $8$ with two dice
Suppose we have two dice. Now we are imposing a condition that the two dice are independent of each other and when we throw, we must have $8$ (that means $6+2 , 5+3$ or $4+4$ etc). Therefore we are ...
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Probability of getting any number if I roll the die 4 times.
We have a question to investigate any game between two players that have dice, when the dice are rolled $4$ times what is the probability of getting any number say $4$ or $5$.. note that the highest ...
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Rolling 5, 6 sided dice where top 3 equal 15. How many rolls? How in Recursion?
Let's say that I have 5 (n), 6-sided (d) normal dice. How would I figure out how many possible rolls there are, where the top 3 (k) numbers rolled, equal 15 (t)? How would I do this using recursion ...
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probability of rolling at least $n$ on $k$ 6-sided dice
Is there a simple form for the probability of rolling at least $n$ on $k$ 6-sided dice? Of course you can do it by recursion (see here). But is there a way to do it with just a few binomial ...
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How do you calculate the probability of army loss in Risk, but with modifiers to dice?
I was wondering how you can calculate the outcome of dice rolls in the board game Risk, but with modifiers, assuming 3 attackers and 2 defenders.
In Risk the attacker rolls 3 dice, and the defender ...
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Dice Game: Creating Probabilistic Models for a Casino
*The Dice Game: Creating Probabilistic models *
a. Consider a game with two players, Ann and Bob. Ann has a red die and Bob a white die.
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Can you Fourier transform probabilities?
If I have a rect function , and I convolute it with it's self, I get a triangle function. If I convolute with a rect function again, I get a bell-curve. I can continue, so long as I know how to ...
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Modelling die roll sequence
I have a die with $N$ sides. It has a hidden transitive order which has to be uncovered. At the start of a trial, I throw the die until I get the highest-ranking side. I then throw the die until I get ...
