imagine you are playing a game with your roommate and the loser has to do the dishes for a month.The game will be based on the sum of the dots on the two faces when two fair (equally weighted) dice are tossed. You will first investigate the possible values for the sum and their probabilities. You can then understand which values of the sum are more likely to occur. This can be used to determine whether winning the game seems reasonable or very unlikely.

Let us review the possible outcomes when two dice are tossed: