My fascination with these confounding dice

It makes sense when you look at all the faces of each die and see how each only has two numbers, and that the the values selected for each die give one a slight advantage over another but not both: red beats black because 4 is larger than 3, and the red die is mostly 4’s versus black’s 3’s. But yellow will beat red because it’s equally 5’s and 2’s, which also gives it a disadvantage against black’s 3’s and 6…

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