Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die

dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

If your goal is to roll a 7, then no, weighting one die doesn’t help, because it doesn’t matter which side comes up in the weighted die.

(Another way to look at it is that you can place 1 die on whatever side you like, then roll the 2nd die: you still have a 1/6 chance of rolling a combined 7).

However that is only the case for a 7, because you can roll a 7 with any combination of the first die. If your goal is to roll a 12, then weighting one die towards 6 will affect the odds, because you need a 6 on that first die to roll a 12; any other outcome makes it impossible.

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