Against All Odds?—A Surprisingly Not So Easy Dice Game
ABSTRACT A game with 11 players, 2 dice, and simple rules. However, it turns out that the best strategy is not only absent from the literature, but that misconceptions about winning strategies also prevail among surveyed students. This makes it all the more surprising that it is not so easy to get to the bottom of the game mathematically. We present a possible simplification to help understand the phenomenon in stochastics classes.
Authors
- Evita Lerchenberger
- Christoph Oberbucher
Institutions
- University of Graz (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Teaching Statistics
- Published
- 2026-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/test.70053
- Primary Topic
- Probability and Statistical Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00