I have tried asking chatgpt, i have tried searching animations, I just dont get it!
Edit: I finally get it. If you choose a wrong door, then the other wrong door gets opened and if you switch you win, that can happen twice, so 2/3 of the time.
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Okay… look at the problem not from the contestant’s point of view, but Monty Hall’s. First he has rules: the contestant chooses a door, Monty Hall opens a *different* door that contains *only a goat* (the Zonk prize), and offers the switch. Remember, Monty Hall knows where the car is. *He put it there*. And he’s not going to reveal the car before giving you the switching option now is he…
If the contestant chose the car door the first time around – a 1 in 3 chance – then Monty Hall has his choice of which of the two doors to open. Staying wins the contestant the car.
If the contestant chose a goat the first time – a 2 in 3 chance – then Monty Hall is **forced** to open the other goat door. It’s the only door meeting his rules above. In this case, switching to the other door wins them the car.
So when Monty Hall opens one of the two doors, ask yourself… He opened this door…. so why the heck didn’t he open *that* door?
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