problem The Monty Hall and Three Prisoners problems are mathematically identical to Bertrand's Box paradox. The construction of the Boy or Girl paradox is similar, essentially adding a fourth box with a gold coin and a silver coin. Its answer is controversial, based on how one assumes the "drawer" was chosen. References Nickerson, Raymond (2004). Cognition and Chance: The psychology of probabilistic reasoning, Lawrence Erlbaum. Ch. 5, "Some instructive problems: Three cards", pp. 157–160. Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z, p. 16; Howard Margolis, Wason, Monty Hall, and Adverse Defaults. External links Estimating the Probability with Random Boxes and Names, a simulation Probability theory paradoxes Probability problems