Determine the minimum size of a non-winnable lattice

Determine the size of the smallest finite lattice on which the toggle game cannot be won.

Background

The paper proves non-constructively that a finite lattice exists on which the toggle game cannot be won, thereby refuting the left-linear strengthening of the Non-Cancelling Intersections conjecture. Its construction proceeds through a probabilistic marking argument over an affine plane and yields only an extremely large upper bound on the size of a counterexample.

The authors emphasize that their estimate is an upper bound for the particular proof construction, not a lower bound for all counterexamples. The unresolved problem is therefore to determine, or substantially bound, the minimum number of vertices of any finite lattice with an unwinnable toggle game.

References

Determining the size of the smallest lattice on which the toggle game cannot be won remains open.

The Non-Cancelling-Intersections Conjecture Fails for Left-Linear Trees  (2608.19414 - Wilhelm, 19 Aug 2026) in Remark following Theorem 6.3, Section 6.3 ("The resulting bound")