Odds of rolling 17 on 5d6
Chance per roll
10.03%
780 of the 7,776 ways 5 6-sided dice land add up to 17 — about one roll in 10.0. Among the 26 totals 5d6 can make, that is the likeliest total — tied with 1 other, since the distribution is symmetric.
Every total 5d6 can roll, with 17 picked out. The peak is 17 at 10.03%.
Exactly 17, or past it?
Plenty of games ask you to beat a number rather than hit it, and the two are not close.
| Exactly 17 | 10.03% |
| 17 or more | 60.03% |
| 17 or less | 50.00% |
The 780 ways to make it
Too many to list usefully — 780 ordered combinations out of 7,776. Ordered is the point: with two dice, 1 and 6 is a different outcome from 6 and 1, and counting them as one is the commonest way to get dice odds wrong.
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