What is the probability of getting three shinies in a horde?

May. 25, 2015

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There is a1/4096chance of findingoneShiny in a horde. Fortunately for you, I just finished a probability unit in Science. So you want the chances of finding three Shinies in a horde. Well, for that we multiply 1/4096 by itself… three times!

1/4096 x 1/4096 x 1/4096 =1/68,719,476,736

You have approximately aone in 70 millionchance of getting three Shinies in a horde.(That’s a really, really, really small chance.)

Just for the heck of it, here’s the probability of finding five Shinies in a horde.

(It’s so small my calculator had to put in some form of notation.)

The other answer given is (“fortunately”) “completely” incorrect. Here’s why;