Monty Hall problem— Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goa...
It wasn’t a thought experiment, but on my notebook where I write down ideas I also had the following: Dissipative system, Monty Hall problem, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, Toxoplasmosis, Folie à deux, Capgras delusion, Fregoli delusion, Sally–Anne test, and Project MKUltra. 37 Is ...
The presence of three doors in the treasure zoo with a prize behind one of them, is possibly a reference to the Monty Hall Problem. MessagesThe boulder won't move diagonally on this floor. You attempted to push a boulder diagonally on an unsolved floor.Variants...
LuigiasksMarioto choose between three numbered doors, a reference to theMonty Hall problemfrom the American game showLet's Make a Deal. When describing the jackpot, Luigi mentions Whammies, coming from the American game showPress Your Luck. ...
Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns[4], also known as Monty Burns, Montgomery Burns, C.M. Burns, and Mr. Burns, is the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in The Simpsons franchise. He is Springfield's richest, oldest (supposedly), most powerful, and undoubtedly greedi...
Monty HallorMonty Haul Campaign- A type of adventure centered around accumulating as much wealth as possible, as fast as possible, where story takes a back seat to killing the next monster and taking its stuff. Named for the host, Monty Hall, of the game show Let's Make a Deal, featuri...
Lisa is the only Simpson who smokes and has a smoking problem. Lisa is also the only person in her family who does not have blue in her design, helping her stand out from them. For a long time, Lisa's saxophone solos were provided by jazz baritone saxophonist Terry Harrington. Milhouse...
Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns[3], also known as Monty Burns, Montgomery Burns, C.M. Burns, and Mr. Burns, is the owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in The Simpsons franchise. He is Springfield's richest, oldest (supposedly), most powerful, and undoubtedly ...
"Monty Mole has reversed all of the arrow signs." (Woody Woods) "All of the arrow signs have switched direction." "Look out! All of the arrow signs have been reversed!" "You caught the Forward Fruit, so you get to keep moving." "You caught the Plus Coin Fruit, so you get 5 coi...
Next, let's establish the yearThe Phantom Tollboothtakes place. In the absence of any internal cues, we tend to assume a book is set in the year the book came out: 1961 in this case. This assumption worked until I hit chapter 16, where I ran into a big problem: the average boy, ...