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Epic card · Arts
Monty Hall problem, an Epic card
The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, based nominally on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 680,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Monty Hall problem quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Monty Hall problem card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The problem was originally posed in a letter by Steve Selvin to the ______ Statistician in 1975.
Answer
American. The problem was originally posed in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975. From the Monty Hall problem article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Atlantic slave trade. Atlantic slave trade 97 · Art Deco 89 · Arundhati Roy 86 · Monty Hall problem 82 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The problem was originally posed in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975.
- It became famous as a question from reader Craig F. Whitaker's letter quoted in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car, behind the others, goats.
- You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Monty Hall problem article was read about 680,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Monty Hall problem
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Monty Hall problem in the power ranking, all domains together.
- OdinEpic · Arts · ATK 82 DEF 94
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- Atlantic slave tradeEpic · History · ATK 97 DEF 79
- Chad JohnsonEpic · Society · ATK 85 DEF 91
- Vladimir NabokovEpic · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 92
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Monty Hall problem (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cepheus, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
