Make Initiative Way More Complicated with Math!
“”If all eight of them are rolling, they have exactly one-eighth chance of getting the highest number,” Harshbarger said. “But if only five people grab a die [from the eight-person set], they each have a one-in-five chance of rolling the highest number.”
In other words, his friend had managed to turn one of the easiest decisions in a board game into a trivial yet phenomenally complicated math problem.
