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Warning: if you are ever in court and the other side is represented by regnis, you lost.

(You are brilliant, regnis.)[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry, but I just have to say I am marshalling a significant...

And if I realize that you are right and I am wrong, my sense of being wrong might start to spread and I will fall into an abyss of wrongness where I will disintegrate and become nothing and die!

Redietz: OK, fair enough. How would you re-word this problem to satiate the masses, yet keep the information limited enough to have the same answer as originally intended (1/11)?

I have a question for you, Alan. If your partner is looking at a resting die with a "2" and the other one is a spinner, does he show you this or tell you this fact? Again, this situation would be...

Redietz: I'm not going into a long dissertation over this, but it still doesn't matter at all whether your partner peeked under the cup and looked at the dice sequentially or not.

Yes, some of the...

But, Alan, here is your quote from post number 39 "To everyone who thinks I'm wrong: please get yourself two dice, a cup, shake rattle and roll, and then figure what the odds are for the second die...

Alan: It's only if you know exactly WHICH of the two dice are a "2" that the probability improves to 1/6 for the other die. When the problem states "at least one of the dice is a 2", you don't know...

Alan, your suggestion here is quite revealing. You are telling us to do something that you have not done yourself. Because if you did you would be quite surprised by the results.

All that's...

If I tell you at least one of the dice is a "2", but both dice stay behind the screen, the odds are 1/11 that both dice are a "2".

If I pull a "2" die from behind the screen and show it to you,...