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xkcd #3015: D&D Combinatorics (xkcd.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

https://explainxkcd.com/3015/

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was gonna say, sounds like a great use-case for quantum statistics. Until the roll, each arrow is in a superposition where it can be said to be simultaneously cursed and normal. Luck check for each shot until all of either are fully gone.

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