Help me with some Dice chances.

[Vulpine]

If I'm rolling 10D6 what's the chances of rolling triple 3?

Thanks

[Vulpine]

Sorry, I mean triple 1 (although I know its the same) Or what's the chance of rolling dobble ones?

[Leon]

I haven't completely figured out to use it, but there's a dice probability calculator here: http://anydice.com/

Using the string:

output 10d6 named "1, 1, 1, x, x, x, x, x, x, x" - (requiring 1's on 3 dice, and no requirements on the other 7)
 
gives a result of around 7%?  Whether any of that is correct though, is a whole other matter!

[lentulus]

My mistake, Leon probably has it right.

[Vulpine]

Yeah, can't quite get that program to work. 7% sound right to me.

Thanks

[Derek H]

The probability of rolling 3 or more 1s on 10D6 would be higher than that though.

[Techno]

Glad you read the question properly LH.
I certainly didn't the first TWICE !!
And now my comment has jumped in on top of yours.....AAAARGH !!
Cheers - Phil.

[Last Hussar]

There are 60466176 different rolls with 10 x d6 - most will duplicate at least nine other results (9 x 1 + 1 x 6, same as 1, 6, 8x 1 etc)
I know that there are 36 combos where the first dice is one and 2 others are one
28 where die 2 is 1 (excluding one of the others being die 1)
21 where die 3 is 1 (Ex others being dice 1 or 2)
15 die 4
10 die 5
6 die 6
3 die 7
1 die 8 is 1, no duplicates

120 chances of EXACTLY 3 ones

Hmmm Excell and open office have functions to calc this - will look later

[Techno]

This is starting to make my brain hurt lots !

Think there must be lots more combinations than 120 for 3 ones LH. ?
True...there would be 36 combos where the first dice is one....and two others are ones as well....But only if we ignore the 5 (numbers 2 to 6) possible variations on each of the other seven dice.
Don't we need to take those into account as well ? 

Cheers - Confused of Wales

[Leon]

I think one of us should grab a handful of dice, a pen and a piece of paper, and get rolling!

[Techno]

What ?......
No....Write all the combinations down....All sixty and a half million of them.

I'll start....
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1.....

Cheers - Phil  

[Orcs]

I think this post is in the wrong section.

This maths is hardly "FUN STUFF" unless of course you havve masochistic tendancies

[sebigboss79]

Or the original poster rofls about all of us actually rolling dices like there is no tomorrow...

[nikharwood]

I think this post is in the wrong section.

This maths is hardly "FUN STUFF" unless of course you havve masochistic tendancies

[Derek H]

Using Pascall's Triangle you can work out that the probability of rolling exactly three ones on ten D6s is

120 q⁷ * p³

Where p is  probability of rolling a 1 = 1/6
And q is the probability of rolling a number other than a 1 = 5/6


That's about 2.15%