thanks always thought there must be a better way than comparing values before and after typeconversion

there are only four players..

how does p4 win this
dice_game([(1, 3), (2, 6), (6, 3), (5, 6), (2, 2), (5, 6), (5, 4), (1, 3), (5, 6)]), 'p4')

p4 has a value of 11 and player1 and player8 have the same value, and the tiebreaker doesnt work there ...

how do i report code for nudity?

its not slower because you have one value that holds the current highest instead of a list with perhaps hundreds of numbers and then you have to search through that list for max value when u return it and python is known for lists being slow at a certain amount of data