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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. The problem was originally posed (and solved) in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975.
The goat problems do not yield any new mathematical insights; rather they are primarily exercises in how to artfully deconstruct problems in order to facilitate solution. Three-dimensional analogues and planar boundary/area problems on other shapes, including the obvious rectangular barn and/or field, have been proposed and solved. [1]
The Monty Hall problem is a puzzle in probability that is loosely based on the American game show Let's Make a Deal. The name comes from the show's host Monty Hall. In this puzzle a player is shown three closed doors; behind one is a car, and behind each of the other two is a goat. The player is allowed to open one door, and will win whatever ...
The Monty Hall problem. I'm convinced I'm a lost cause so there's not really any point trying to explain further. ... Monty was an alien and the car was a speedboat and the goat was a centaur and ...
The Monty Hall problem is a puzzle involving probability similar to the American game show Let's Make a Deal.The name comes from the show's host, Monty Hall.A widely known, but problematic (see below) statement of the problem is from Craig F. Whitaker of Columbia, Maryland in a letter to Marilyn vos Savant's September 9, 1990, column in Parade Magazine (as quoted by Bohl, Liberatore, and Nydick).
In this specific version of the Monty hall problem, the additional information given by the fact that the goat Monty reveals could not have been chosen is exactly offset by the information that Monty reveals that goat (which he is less likely to do when the contestant has chosen the car) Therefore the right answer can be arrived at incorrectly.
Rick and Glopk, one hypothetical question, I'd like to know what you think: In case some remark would have been added to Marylin's answer or even to the well-known statement of the problem that has been published in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990 (as per Whitaker/vos Savant 1990): "Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors ...
The Goat: 3: Talk:Monty Hall problem/Archive 9#The Goat: Addition of simplest explanation: 1: Talk:Monty Hall problem/Archive 9#Addition of simplest explanation: Minesweeper analogy: 4: Talk:Monty Hall problem/Archive 9#Minesweeper analogy: Wrong explanation: 17: Talk:Monty Hall problem/Archive 9#Wrong explanation: Proposed Solution section: 4