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If by shuffle you mean that Monty just gets to keep trying until he picks a goat, you're right. If instead you mean that they randomize all three doors and sta
by daveFNbuck 7y ago
If by shuffle you mean that Monty just gets to keep trying until he picks a goat, you're right.
If instead you mean that they randomize all three doors and start over, the probability is 1/2 because half the time that the player has a goat you start over and get to pick again, which perfectly cancels out the double probability of having a goat.
This can be analyzed pretty easily using the three possibilities you outlined earlier. Suppose the player gets door 1 and Monty always picks door 2. Each time they shuffle, you get one of the following with equal probability:
A. car-goat-goat
B. goat-car-goat
C. goat-goat-car
A means the player wins, B means we re-shuffle, C means the player loses. It's pretty easy to see that A and B are equally likely outcomes, so they become 50/50 odds after all the re-shuffling is done.