Abstract
Consider the following game: Each of the n players independently picks a number from 1 through m according to a given probability distribution, and the winner is the player who selected the lowest of the n numbers. A tie occurs if two or more players both selected the lowest number. Surprisingly, contrary to intuition for certain distributions (including one which arises in a version of Bingo, the probability of a tie does not increase montonically. However, as we show the tie probability does increase monotonically when the probability distribution is monotonically non-increasing.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 55-59 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Applied Mathematics Letters |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1993 |
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