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Of the examples given, game A was always a losing game, and game B was basically two games (I'm calling these sub-games) duct taped together, where one is a winning game, and the other is a game that loses very badly. This causes negative expected value across all of game B.

The important parts here are that in game A you lose slower than in game B's losing sub-game, and game B's sub-games switch depending on the resources you win/lose in game A.

The strategy is to play game A until you hit the conditions for game B's winning sub-game to kick in, then play game B until it swaps back over again, then go back to A and repeat the process.

Thus two games where each have negative expected value, can be daisy chained to produce positive expected value.



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