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Originally posted by Klorox:
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Originally posted by Kyrvias:
Yep. I think the same applies to smashing the lock. If you fail 3 times, you'll *never* open it with your current skill/strength
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That's just not true. I'll try 10 times, as a rule, and sometimes don't get it until that 10th time.
Since it's a game of percentages, maybe you could eventually open any lock with any skill amount. I dunno. [/QUOTE]I doubt that the chance of opening a lock is a geometric distribution - it is probably binomial, meaning that the probability of opening the lock is the same with each time you attempt to open it. So as you try more and more, there are more opportunities to get that small probability of opening the locked chest. ZFR, that is why you got it around the 50th try.