Winning Probabilities of Balanced and Nontransitive n-tuples of Dice
Abstract
For a positive integer , an -tuple of dice is called balanced if and nontransitive if are each greater than . For a balanced and nontransitive -tuple of dice , we define the winning probability . The works of Trybula and Kim et al. together show that for a balanced and nontransitve triple of dice , the least upper bound on the winning probability is . Kim et al. then asked what the least upper bound on the winning probability was for the cases. Bogdanov and Komisarski independently have shown that for and a balanced and nontransitive -tuple of dice , the winning probability is less than . In this paper, we will show that for and every rational , there exists a balanced and nontransitive -tuple of dice with winning probability . Paired with Bogdanov and Komisarski's results, this fully answers the problem posed by Kim et al. and establishes a complete characterization of the winning probabilities for nontransitive and balanced -tuples of dice.
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@article{arxiv.2505.21950,
title = {Winning Probabilities of Balanced and Nontransitive n-tuples of Dice},
author = {Joshua Rooney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.21950},
year = {2025}
}