The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

For over 30 years, Monte Hall was the host of a game show called Let's Make a Deal.

In the show, they played a very simple game where you would choose one of three

doors. This game has led to one of the most controversial and public curfuffles amongst

mathematicians which caused many distinguished mathematicians to have egg on their face.

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incredibly simple and can be explained over audio. The problem is this.

On let's make a deal, they had a game where a contestant was shown three doors.

Behind one door, there was a new car.

Behind the other doors, you had a booby prize prize like a goat or a chicken.

Monte would ask the contestant to pick one of the three doors.

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