Suppose we were to analyze the game in which there is $100 at the end of the road for the player who can get there first. This game of skill is not hard to analyze: the money goes to the fastest, barring accidents and random elements. We can predict rational behavior (running) and the outcome (money to the fastest). Ties will occasionally occur; but they will occur at the end of a race and will not be taken for granted at the outset. We need an auxiliary rule to cover ties, but it need not dominate either the game or the analysis.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 632