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KöMaL 2021 B5164

    Two players continue playing rock-paper-scissors games until one of them wins the third time. Assume that each player in each game selects rock, paper or scissors at random (independently of each other and of previous games), with probabilities of 13:13:13\frac13 : \frac13 : \frac13. Determine the expected value of the number of games needed.

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