Puzzles with counterintuitive solutions do more than challenge us. They expose how easily our fast, reflexive thinking can lead us astray. When the Monty Hall problem was first posed by Marilyn Vos ...
During its original run from 1963 1976, Let's Make a Deal quickly established itself as a game show with a difference, bringing the idea of bartering to TV in a major way with Monty Hall serving as ...
Calculating probabilities can be tricky, with subtle changes in context giving quite different results. I was reminded of this recently after setting BrainTwister #10 for New Scientist readers, which ...
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What Happens In Your Brain When You Change Your Mind
Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the host reveals one of the remaining choices ...
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