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Thanks for the answer. From what I understand, ACA_0+Kruskal's theorem actually shows small Veblen ordinal well-founded, so its PTO would have to be strictly higher. I haven't read whole paper, so I might be wrong.
@JoelDavidHamkins As far as I can understand, your game isn't really explicit, because it either requires the existence of a family without choice function, or existence of specific choice function for some family. In either case, it doesn't fit my definition of "explicit".