DICE.

A fair die, rolled without end. The average of the pips finds three and a half — and cannot help it.
Last rolls
Field notes

One roll is pure luck. A million rolls is a law — and the law is three and a half.

01 The wobble

The first dozen rolls throw the average anywhere. Two sixes in a row and it reads 4.8; a run of ones drags it to 1.6. Early on the mean is all noise and no signal — the die owes the past nothing.

02 The pull of 3.5

The six faces average (1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 = exactly 3.5. No single roll can land there — there is no half-pip — yet the running mean is dragged toward it, harder the longer you wait. That pull is the Law of Large Numbers.

03 The funnel closes

The spread of the mean shrinks like 1/√N. Quadruple the rolls and you halve the wobble. The band drawn around 3.5 is that arithmetic made visible — a funnel the trace is forced, slowly, to thread.