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Playing with Dice

Roll These Dice

Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possible answers?

Bipin's Choice

Bipin is in a game show and he has picked a red ball out of 10 balls. He wins a large sum of money, but can you use the information to decided what he should do next?

Trick or Treat

Mrs. Smith had emptied packets of chocolate-covered mice, plastic frogs and gummi-worms into a cauldron for treats. What treat is Trixie most likely to pick out?

A Bit of a Dicey Problem

Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

2dice

Look at these two dice. If you add together the numbers of dots on them, the total is $2$.
When you roll two ordinary six-faced dice like these and add together the two numbers, what results could you get?

Do you have more chance of getting one answer than any other?

If so, what is that answer? And why?

What if you use a dice with $10$ numbers on, like these?

Deca Dice

What answers could you get now?
Do you have more chance of getting one answer than any other?
If so, what is that answer? And why?

Now try with more dice or a mixture of dice. What do you notice now?