xkcd #3015: D&D Combinatorics - eviltoast

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/

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    I dm Call of Cthulhu, so simply roll a luck check.
    The chance doesn’t follow maths, it follows the whims of That Which We Do Not See.
    And Randall has pushed his luck with them too far already.

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      1 month 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.