Recent studies on the Dice Race Problem and its connections
The following type of dice games has been mentioned and/or studied in the literature. Players take turns in rolling a fair die successively, each player accumulating his or her scores as long as the outcome 1 does not occur. If the result 1 turns up, the accumulated score is wiped out, and the turn ends, that is the player gives the die to the next player. At any stage after a roll, the player (she, say) can choose to end her turn and bank her accumulated score. The winner is the first player to...