The ' Monty Hall problem ' is one of the probability problems that is known for being difficult to understand even when the result is explained. Engineer Mikhail Paszkiewicz explains how to explain ...

The Monty Hall problem is a difficult problem in probability theory that is so famous that even a well-known mathematician mistakes it as 'a problem in which the answer that seems intuitively correct ...

Tom Ellis, who developed a problem that is even harder than the hardest logic problem ever, writes with some puzzle-thoughts that may be of interest: The beginning of this story may seem familiar.

Puzzles with counterintuitive solutions do more than challenge us. They expose how easily our fast, reflexive thinking can lead us astray. When the Monty Hall problem was first posed by Marilyn Vos ...