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### How often do you have to roll a 6-sided die to obtain every number at least once?

I've just played a game with my kids that basically boils down to: whoever rolls every number at least once on a 6-sided die wins. I won, eventually, and the others finished 1-2 turns later. Now I'm ...
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### Odds of rolling doubles or triples given N 6-sided dice

Over the holidays I played a dice game where each player had 3 to 7 d6 to roll each turn. The game gave certain advantages to doubles and triples. I wanted to know the odds of rolling doubles or ...
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### Roll a 6-sided die until the total $\geq M$. Mean amount by which $M$ is exceeded?

Here is the question: You roll a fair 6-sided dice iteratively until the sum of the dice rolls is greater than or equal to M. What is the mean and standard deviation of the sum minus M when M=300? ...
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### Formula for dropping dice (non-brute force)

First of all I'm not sure where this question should be posted. I'm asking if a statistics problem is NP-Complete and if not to solve it programmatically. I'm posting it here because the statistics ...
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### Die 100 rolls no face appearing more than 20 times

I am trying to wrap my head around this problem. A die is rolled 100 times. What is the probability of no face being appearing more than 20 times? My first thought was using the Binomial distribution ...
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### Probability of drawing all balls in a non-uniformly distributed population

I am wondering if there is a way of calculating the following: I have a bag with 5 balls numbered from 1 through 5 that are going to be drawn. Due to different weights, the balls have different ...