Thread: odds of rolling 6 of a kind

I need to know the odds of rolling 6 of the same number on a single roll of 6 standard dice. Can you please include a brief description of how your answer was calculated?
Thank you.

Originally Posted by wshore

I need to know the odds of rolling 6 of the same number on a single roll of 6 standard dice. Can you please include a brief description of how your answer was calculated?

There are possible outcomes of tossing six dice.
There is only way one to get all ones.
There is only way one to get all twos.
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There is only way one to get all sixes.

So what is the answer?

How about the odds of rolling 6 sixes?

Originally Posted by wshore

How about the odds of rolling 6 sixes?

The probabiity of rolling six 6's is .

Thank you.