Because MATH, that's why.

[theweaselking]

You roll two fair 6-sided dice.

One of them is a 6.

What are the odds that the other is also a six?

[Poll #1770498]

Comments

[cavalorn.livejournal.com]

Kicking myself now for misreading the question.

I'd seen it as an issue of 'two dice rolled under separate cups - you look at one of them, see it is a six, and therefore the die under the other cup has a one in six chance of being a six.'

But that's not the question you were asking at all, I see.

In fact, it's much more like this:

Your GM rolls 2d6 behind his GM's screen. He looks at them and says 'Well, one of these is a 6.' You then have to figure out the odds of the other one being a 6 too.