The brightest minds fail when it comes to probabilities; our thinking is not geared towards them. This is reason enough to thoroughly engage with the Monty Hall problem, the messenger dilemma, the illusion of control, blind chickens, error seeds, monkeys as novelists, and other wonders and pitfalls of probability theory. "Mathematics can be very, very funny," says the author in the preface to the revised new edition. "Funny not in the sense that the subject is comedic. But it has wit. There are proofs that take unexpected turns, starting harmlessly with trivial matters and suddenly questioning an entire world. And it is certainly amusing when grand claims can be absurdly disproven with a little math.".