Pool success counts

At the table

Pool games often ask: how many dice succeeded, or did any die show a particular face? Indie designs like The Pool use “any natural 1”; other rules want “at least two 8+ on 5d10.”

Try it

Copy the script into the playground editor and click Run.

The script

↗output("how_many_high", 3d6.count(5..))
output("any_one", dice_pool(2, 6).p_any(1))

• 3d6 is a pool (notation leaves dice separate before .count).
• .count(5..) returns a distribution over 0, 1, 2, or 3—the number of dice that showed 5 or 6.
• .p_any(1) is a single probability: at least one die showed a 1 (11/36 on 2d6).

Related helpers on pools:

• p_none(spec) — no die matched.
• p_at_least(k, spec) — at least k dice matched (e.g. two or more 8+).

Use the same face spec as keep / count: int, [faces], or ranges like 5...

Reading the result

how_many_high is a full DieRoll table. any_one prints one probability (like lesson 4’s p_ge).

Try this

• Match The Pool with dice_pool(n, 6).p_any(1) in a loop.
• Output 5d10.count(8..) and read how often you get 0, 1, … successes.

how_many_high · DieRoll · mean 1.000

any_one · Prob