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If Monty opens a door at random he could open the same random door for all three players. One player sees the car (and what happens next...

The two points mentioned by Jaime and Ibix are very important. The expansion of the universe is a property of spacetime itself (it's not...

Complementing what @Ibix mentioned, it might be worth mentioning that the expansion of the universe does not necessarily imply an...

Not misleading, just wrong. You are correct that if the universe is closed and finite then it always was; if it is flat or open and...

I presume you posted another 50% screed in the Monty Hall thread and it got deleted? At this point, we've told you the flaw in your...

I thought of another angle. Imagine the game is played simultaneously by three players, each with their own instance of the game. In...

It's a Rorschach test. I would reject the switch because I am a paranoid person. ;-)

OK, a case of wrong logic leading to the right answer. IOW, Monty's actions are trying to help them win.

It should also be noted that, in practice, offering a switch is a provocation. Far more people than usual, when offered a switch, think...

You could use the whole deck. The ace of spades is the prize and every other card is not. After the contestant chooses one card face...

True, I didn't see the simplified version Ibix proposed. Simply using the three cards is enough.

Cool, but three playing cards would be a lot more efficient an expedient.

You simply need three glasses, a stone, and a contestant. 1- Hide the stone in one of the three glasses. 2- Tell the contestant to...

The real difference is between luck versus the sure thing of a rule. If Monte blindly opens a goat door, that is luck that changes the...

This seems to be in general and not necessarily specific to Barandes formulation