When our brains don't have a good intuition for reasoning with numbers, explicit probabilistic thinking can lead to improved decision-making. A man went on an airplane ride. Unfortunately, he fell out ...

Smith has two children. At least one of them is a boy. What is the probability that the other child is a boy? Jones has two children. The older one is a girl. What is the probability that the other ...

There are 36 cards labeled with the numbers 1 through 36 and then placed face down on a table. If four cards are revealed one after the other, what is the probability that each card’s number is larger ...

However, Talwalkar explains that this is incorrect. The real probability is actually slightly less than 50 percent. He breaks down the math as follows: There is a 12 out of 24 chance that the first ...

Preston's gaming journey started out on the GameBoy Advance with games such as Kirby, Final Fantasy, and Pokemon. He is now a UCLA graduate that has a degree in Communications and Minor in Theater.

Control is filled with plenty of mind-bending visuals and equally trippy puzzles, and hidden behind a Level 5 security door in the Luck & Probability department of the Research sector is an experiment ...

This past week's puzzle, as presented: Ping pong (or table tennis) is a game of both odds and luck. Most games I have seen have been rather one sided — it is really rare that two players are really at ...

A drawer contains 12 identical black socks and 12 identical white socks. If you pick two socks at random, what is the probability of getting a matching pair? That was ...