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Chances Are printable sheet


Here are five competitions you could enter.

Which one offers you the best chance of winning?

  • You win a prize if you flip a fair coin and get twelve heads in a row.
  • Our gardener has ranked her seven favourite plants in order. If you rank them in the same order, you win.
  • Choose the top 4 from 10 famous pictures and put them in the right order to win.
  • Throw five fair dice and get five sixes to win the first prize.
  • You throw four ten-sided dice and win first prize if you get four sixes.

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