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speedfreak227
29th October 2005, 17:50
no it's not monopoly, it's BACKGAMMON, and i've got a question about the odds of rolling certain numbers.

i tried looking online and found various dice odds tables but not what i was looking for and i don't feel like grinding out the odds myself.

what i'm looking for is the odds of rolling certain TOTALS with 2 dice.
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, and 12.

i know 7 is the most likely combination but what is the percentage chance of rolling each total?

speedfreak227
XCNuse
29th October 2005, 18:07
lol backgammon.. havent played that in a looong time, i've forgotten how to play since then.. owell

well about the dice.. well the dice have 6 sides each, and you have 2, so that makes 12 (if you cant add or multiply), so you have a 1:6 ratio for each number basically..
i dont know why you want to know these things but its pretty obvious, that if something has 6 sides.. you have a one in six chances of getting it lol
speedfreak227
29th October 2005, 18:13
no it's more complex than that. here's what i mean

to get a total of 2 you can only roll a 1 and a 1
to get a total of 3 you can roll a 1+2 or 2+1
to get a total of 7 you can roll 1+6, 2+5, 3+4, 4+3, 5+2, 6+1

damn, i might as well just grind it out.

speedfreak227
no_one
29th October 2005, 18:32
Here is a website with % probabilities on it:

http://wizardofodds.com/gambling/dice.html
XCNuse
29th October 2005, 18:44
lol either way it doesnt matter, all probabilities orbit around the chaos theory, there is no way you can predict what you will roll :p
P5YcHoM4N
29th October 2005, 18:58
lol either way it doesnt matter, all probabilities orbit around the chaos theory, there is no way you can predict what you will roll :p

You can't predect, but if you know the odds, you have more chance of guessing correctly. And winning more molar
al heeley
29th October 2005, 18:58
No thats not the point, but you can estimate there will be more chance of certain numbers coming up more often than others.
For a single roll of 2 dice, the probability of X and Y coming up (eg: any double) are 1 in 36, as each die can be 1 -6 and there are 2, so 6 X 6 = 36.
7 is the most common number thrown with 2 dice as there are 6 ways of throwing it, so chances of throwing a 7 is 6/36 = 1 in 6.
speedfreak227
29th October 2005, 19:00
Here is a website with % probabilities on it:

http://wizardofodds.com/gambling/dice.html

that is EXACTLY what i wanted.

thank you.

speedfreak227