What can you do with marbles?

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This doesn't seem like a math question. The obvious answer is to play the game of marbles with them. When I was a boy, this was a popular game for kids. The idea is that one marble is designated as the shooter . The other marbles are placed in a ring drawn in the dirt.

You place the shooter in one hand and using your thumb, shoot it at one of the marbles in the ring , trying to knock it out of the ring. if you succeed, you get a point and another shot. If you " play for keeps" each players puts a certain number of his marbles in the ring and you get to keep the marbles you knock out.

There is common board game called Chinese checkers that uses marbles for men. The board has holes in it to hold the marbles.

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As far as marbles and math go, a bag containing various colored marbles is often used to demonstrate probable outcomes. For example, if a bag contains 3 blue marbles, 3 red marbles, and 1 yellow marble, what is the probability that the first two marbles pulled will be of different colors?

(In this example, the odds are 5 out of 7, or about 71%. If either a red or blue marble is pulled first, which will each happen 3/7 of the time, there would be four out of six marbles left whose color doesn't match. If the yellow marble is pulled, which will happen 1/7 of the time, the next marble is guaranteed to not match.)