Probability of having a set of the same color when picking $N$-sets of $3$ items from $2$ + neutral colored bag of balls

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Having a bag of balls of $3$ colors:

  • $m$ balls are red
  • $n$ balls are blue
  • $o$ balls are grey

If $N$ people pick $3$ balls out of the bag, what is the probability that at least one of them will have $3$ either red or blue balls.

The probability of one person doing this should be: $\frac{\binom{m}{3} + \binom{n}{3}}{\binom{m+n+o}{3}}$

I cannot figure out the case with multiple people, because those are not independent events.