Intransitive dice set

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"The table is tilted, folks; The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care." -George Carlin The game is simple. On the table there are three 6-faced dices. Each of two player picks one dice from the set, and the one that's left is discarded. Then the two players both roll their chosen dice, and the bigger number wins. After several sets, the player that won the most sets wins, fair and square. Fair and square? Not so fast. The second person to choose their dice has an advantage, because those are intransitive dices-- a mathematical curiosity (described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_dice). Dice A has faces 2, 4 and 9 Dice B has faces 1, 8 and 6 Dice C has faces 3, 7 and 5 It's easy to see that, on the long run: - Dice A beats dice B 5/9th of the time - Dice B beats dice C 5/9th of the time and... wait for it... - Dice C beats dice A 5/9th of the time! (Wut wut wuuut?) So, here's yet another game where the person with insider knowledge wins. But this time, you hold the big end of the chtick! All you need is a wee bit of crookery to reap the reward... And when did that ever stop you, huh? (All resemblance with existing political and/or economical systems is purely coincidental)