Chances for a specific party member to be targeted out of n party members?

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In Final Fantasy 1, the chance for a given party member, in the party of four, to be targeted by a single-target attack depends on their placement order as follows:

  1. 50% chance, 1 in 2
  2. 25% chance, 1 in 4
  3. 12.5% chance, 1 in 8
  4. 12.5% chance, 1 in 8

But how does having less living and unpetrified (call them "targetable" for simplicity) party members change the odds? Obviously, having only one targetable party member will get them targeted 100% of the time, but what about two or three targetable party members?






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