A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties in which none of the parties can neither proceed nor retreat without exposing themselves to danger. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some outside event makes it possible to resolve it. Mexican standoffs need not have only two participants. Some elements of a truel, a confrontation among three opponents armed with guns, show both the Mexican-standoff property and a method of resolving it by the actions of a third party. The tactics for such a confrontation are...