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Russian Roulette... 16.7 % for all 6 to stay alive... 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_

1. 📔 "Notable incidents" section is a good read ( famous people who tried it ) 👀

2. I've personally done the "cross road without braking" (blind left and right, down hill, no breaks- admittedly in non-busy area but bus goes that route for example)

3. 🔫 Revolver spun only once at the start... probabilities I hope I understood correctly below from Wikipedia...

"Given a six-shot revolver... the single-pull loss probabilities" for each of the six players in order:

Player1 16.7 %
Player2 20 %
Player3 25 %
Player4 33.3 %
Player5 50 % (1 or 2 pulls left)
Player6 100 % (you get the bullet 100% because the 5 before didn't catch it)

However, in the re-spinning variant, all players only come into the game if and when each of the players before them has caught an empty chamber...

...the all-game loss (non-dead) is approx 16.7%

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