More Dice, More Problems
Suppose Alice comes across an infinite collection of dice that are sided with values on the sides. The dice are all biased the same way i.e. side shows up with probability . For some positive integer threshold , Alice and Bob play the following game, with Alice starting: Alice rolls die from the collection. Call her roll . If , Alice wins the game. Otherwise, Bob rolls dice from this collection. Call the sum of his rolls . If , Bob wins the game. Otherwise, Alice rolls dice from the collection. Call the sum of her rolls . If , Alice wins the game, otherwise, repeat in the same fashion as the above until someone rolls a sum of dice greater than . Find Alice's probability of winning the game in the case where , and the dice are fair. Note that unlike other problems, there is nowhere near a closed-form expression for this probability for general dice and values of .
Answer format: round to 3 decimal places.
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