Dice & Cards
How many faces does a standard six-sided die have?
What is 6?
How many pockets are on a European roulette wheel?
What is 37?
If a slot machine has a 94% payback percentage, what is the house edge?
What is 6%?
How many suits are in a standard deck of playing cards?
What is 4?
What fallacy makes people think a coin that landed heads 10 times in a row is “due” for tails?
What is Gambler’s Fallacy?
What is the probability of rolling an even number on a fair six-sided die? (simplified fraction)
What is 1/2?
On an American roulette wheel, what color is the 0 pocket?
What is green?
What does a game with a 100% payback percentage mean?
What is there is no house edge?
What is the highest-ranking poker hand?
What is a royal flush?
Who is credited with developing the first concepts of probability while solving a gambling problem in the 1650s?
Who is Blaise Pascal or Pierre de Fermat?
What is the probability of drawing a heart from a standard 52-card deck? (simplified fraction)
What is 1/4?
What is the payout for a straight-up bet (single number) in roulette? (eg. 5000 to 1)
What is 35 to 1?
You bet $5 on a coin flip game that pays even money. What is your expected value per bet if the game is fair?
What is $0?
How many ways can you be dealt a pair in 5-card poker, approximately?
What is 1,098,240 (accepting “over a million” or “about 42% of hands”)?
What common gambling misconception leads people to increase their bets after a loss, believing a win is "due" soon to recover losses?
What is the Martingale Fallacy?
With two fair six-sided dice, how many total possible outcomes are there?
What is 36?
What is the house edge on even-money bets (red/black, odd/even) in American roulette? (as a percentage)
What is 5.26%?
A game pays 5 to 1 and the true probability of winning is 1/7. What is the expected value of a $1 bet to the nearest cent?
What is -4 cents?
What is the probability of being dealt a flush in 5-card poker? (to the nearest tenth of a percent)
What is 0.2%?
What fallacy occurs when someone believes that a small sample of random events (like a few spins of a roulette wheel) should closely match the overall expected probabilities, even though short-term results can deviate significantly due to chance?
What is the Law of Small Numbers (or Hot Hand Fallacy in reverse / belief in the law of averages in small samples)?
In a standard deck, what are the odds against being dealt two aces in your first two cards? (eg. 5000 to 1)
What is 220 to 1?
In European roulette, what is your expected value for a $1 bet on a single number? (to nearest tenth of a cent)
What is –2.7 cents?
If you play 10,000 hands of blackjack with a 0.5% house edge and average $10 per hand, approximately how much do you expect to lose?
What is $500?
In Texas Hold’em, what are the approximate odds of flopping a set when holding a pocket pair? (will accept answer in percent format or eg. 5000 to 1 format)
What is about 11.8 to 1 or 11.8%?
What 18th-century problem involving dice division led to the development of modern probability theory?
What is The Problem of Points?