Even highly-trained mathematicians are initially confused by the probabilities.

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A hotel with an infinite number of rooms... eventually fills up (when an "infinite party bus" shows up). Via kottke.

If this sort of puzzling goes well with your coffee break, the Monty Hall problem is fun to think about.

This problem is one of those situations—albeit rare—where someone can be shown an entire chain of logic, surveying the whole problem and its solution, and yet still have it bump up against their intuition.

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