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The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer

Veritasium · 3 min read

A counterintuitive prison riddle turns out to have a surprisingly high escape chance—about 31%—once prisoners stop treating their searches as...

Permutation CyclesProbability100 Prisoners Riddle

Math Magic

Vsauce · 3 min read

Rearranging letters and counting words can make Shakespeare, the Bible, and even a specific age line up—yet the “magic” is really probability and...

ProbabilityCard TricksCyclical Sequences

Would You Take This Bet?

Veritasium · 2 min read

A string of “favorable” coin-flip bets can still feel like a bad deal to people—until the same risk is reframed as a long series. In a staged...

Loss AversionExpected ValueRisk Framing

Solution to The Impossible Bet | The 100 Prisoners Problem

minutephysics · 2 min read

The “impossible bet” in the 100 prisoners problem looks unwinnable because each person is limited to checking only 50 boxes, and naive random choices...

100 Prisoners ProblemPermutation CyclesProbability

Random Numbers, Histograms, and Distributions in Desmos

Duddhawork · 2 min read

Desmos can generate random numbers from a chosen statistical distribution, then use those samples to build histograms that gradually “converge”...

Normal DistributionRandom NumbersHistograms