Odds of success for a few cards

[pimaster]

Mean Green Bean
Win $10: 39.297%
Win $10 and all discarded ships: 0.078%
Sacrifice a ship: 60.625%

DNA Resequencing/Newport News
(this assumes that you only pick numbers from 1 to 6)
Violet thru Blue
Get 0: 29.167%
Get 1: 41.597%
Get 2: 22.604%
Get 3: 5.868%
Get 4: 0.729%
Get 5: 0.035%

Violet thru Red
Get 0: 26.25%
Get 1: 40.354%
Get 2: 24.503%
Get 3: 7.542%
Get 4: 1.243%
Get 5: 0.104%
Get 6: 0.003%

Violet thru Black
Get 0: 24.063%
Get 1: 39.179%
Get 2: 25.824%
Get 3: 8.955%
Get 4: 1.768%
Get 5: 0.199%
Get 6: 0.0119%
Get 7: 0.000289%

Violet thru Pink
Get 0: 22.458%
Get 1: 38.171%
Get 2: 26.715%
Get 3: 10.080%
Get 4: 2.247%
Get 5: 0.304%
Get 6: 0.0243%
Get 7: 0.00106%
Get 8: 0.0000193%

[Tyberius]

Thanks for putting this together. Now I'm even angrier when I get 0 on DNA/News instead of 1.


....For bonus points, what are the odds of getting at least 1?

[fsd]

Well, wouldn't you just subtract the 0 result from 100% to get the answer:

DNA Resequencing/Newport News
(this assumes that you only pick numbers from 1 to 6)
Violet thru Blue
Get 0: 29.167%
Get at least 1: 70.833%

Violet thru Red
Get 0: 26.25%
Get at least 1: 73.75%

Violet thru Black
Get 0: 24.063%
Get at least 1: 75.937%

Violet thru Pink
Get 0: 22.458%
Get at least 1: 77.542%

[Tyberius]

By golly you're right. I must've left my brain in my other pants yesterday.

Thanks for the update.