Last Stack Standing — Money Creation Advantage

Game mode

Table

Players 6 Games 200 Preview first game

Watch chip stacks move in game 1, then finish the batch at full speed.

Stakes

Increase every 100

The winner of each round takes this many chips from every other active player. Rising stakes keep bailout games from dragging on forever.

Chip stacks

Waiting to run

Win share

vs equal chance

Players 6 Games / level 200 Max bailouts 12 Bailout size 25%

Stakes Linear

Interval 100

Ready — 0 bailouts is the fair-play baseline. 0 / 0

Player 1 win rate vs bailouts

Mean with 95% confidence interval, against the 1/N fair line

Inequality ratio

P1 terminal chips / avg other

P1 wealth share

Share of chips at game end

Chips created

New chips per game (inflation)

Bailouts	Games	P1 win %	95% CI	vs fair	Inequality	P1 share	Extra chips	Avg rounds

About this experiment

Last Stack Standing is a Monte Carlo table-stakes game. Everyone starts equal. Dice decide each round. The only thing that can break symmetry is the ability to create chips from nothing.

Rules

Each player starts with 10 chips.
Every round, every active player rolls a six-sided die. Highest roll wins. Ties are broken at random.
The winner takes the current stake from each other active player (or whatever they have left).
A player with 0 chips is eliminated. The last stack standing wins the game.
Stakes rise on a schedule so games cannot stall: linear (1, 2, 3…) or exponential (1, 2, 4…).

Money printer

When Player 1 would otherwise be eliminated, they can be recapitalized a limited number of times. The bailout is new chips, sized as a percentage of chips still on the table — not a transfer from anyone else. That is the entire advantage: survival plus an expanding chip supply.

What to look for

Fair play: win shares should sit near 1/N, with ordinary sampling noise.
Printer: Player 1’s win rate should climb with more bailouts and larger injections.
Sweep: maps that curve, with a confidence band, plus knock-on effects: inequality, terminal wealth share, and chips created.

Why compare exists

Running fair and printer back-to-back on the same table settings is the cleanest way to see the printer’s lift. The sweep then answers the follow-up: how much privilege does each extra bailout buy?

Limitations

This is a stylized chance model, not a forecast of any real economy. There is no production, credit, or policy reaction function — only a fair lottery plus optional recapitalization. The analogy is to mechanisms that create claims without a matching loss elsewhere: fiat issuance, bailouts, and similar backstops.

Even when every roll is fair, the option to mint resources when you would have lost is enough to dominate the table. That is the result the charts are built to show.