You are playing a game where the caller rolls two dice and tells you the numbers, and you have to make the numbers on your card by adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing the two numbers on the dice. You can make more than one number with each pair of dice; eg if the caller rolls a 6 and a 5 you could make 1, 11 & 30 in the same go.

What would be the best six positive integers to have on your card to have the best chance of winning?

I ran the numbers on a spreadsheet, and the most commonly occuring sums, differences, products, and quotients are 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 (each occurs 10 or more times). This is therefore my guess for the solution.

Posted by Wayne on 2003-07-22 18:37:21