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    Hi Rob,
    For the elimination of doubt, nothing about any wagers.
    The original question verbatim from Alan's first post:-
    I got into a rather heated exchange over on the Wizard's forum on this question:

    You have two 6-sided dice in a cup. You shake the dice, and slam the cup down onto the table, hiding the result. Your partner peeks under the cup, and tells you, truthfully, "At least one of the dice is a 2."

    What is the probability that both dice are showing a 2?
    The original question as posed on Wizard's forum first post:-
    You have two 6-sided dice in a cup. You shake the dice, and slam the cup down onto the table, hiding the result. Your partner peeks under the cup, and tells you, truthfully, "At least one of the dice is a 2."

    What is the probability that both dice are showing a 2?
    Verbatim the same.

    Quite different to the one on your comments page: I don't know where that came from.
    This time it was about two dice, where after the shake one of them was "peeked at" and known to be a 2, and the question was "what is the probability that both die are showing a 2"?
    There was never a question about 'the second die' being a two.

    There was a question about the remaining pair of dice :-

    'What is the probability that both dice are showing a 2?'

    There was never any mention of taking or setting aside one of the dice. There was never actually mention of 'peeking at ONE of the dice' in the OQ
    Last edited by OnceDear; 04-22-2015 at 07:41 AM.

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