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If you're going to specify that the number of players is 2, there is no advantage over the much simpler system of:

Flip one coin. If heads, player A is the winner. If tails, player B is the winner.



Except that as a sibling comment mentions; that generalizes to any size of group - for six players you could roll one d6, and have "that" player go first.

But apparently the constraints are: every player rolls one die once.


> But apparently the constraints are: every player rolls one die once.

That doesn't eliminate the natural scheme, it just adds some useless die rolls. You can have each of two players flip a coin and choose player A when player A flips heads or player B when player A flips tails.


Useless depends on context here; I believe the idea is that each player gets a feeling of agency (they go in the order dictated by "their" luck, not leaving the decision to someone elses roll).

The most pragmatic would probably be to shuffle N cards from ace(one) through N - and let everyone draw).

But that doesn't involve dice.




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