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  2. Heads and Tails (card game) - Wikipedia

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    First, a row of eight cards are dealt; this is the "Heads" row. Then 8 piles of 11 cards are dealt; this is reserve. Below them is another row of eight cards, the "Tails" row. The object of the game is to free one Ace and one King of each suit and build each of them by suit; the Aces are built up to Kings while the Kings are built down to Aces.

  3. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air and checking which side is showing when it lands, in order to randomly choose between two alternatives. It is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible outcomes.

  4. Penney's game - Wikipedia

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    Recently Robert W. Vallin, and later Vallin and Aaron M. Montgomery, presented results with Penney's Game as it applies to (American) roulette with Players choosing Red/Black rather than Heads/Tails. In this situation the probability of the ball landing on red or black is 9/19 and the remaining 1/19 is the chance the ball lands on green for the ...

  5. Matching pennies - Wikipedia

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    Matching pennies is a non-cooperative game studied in game theory.It is played between two players, Even and Odd. Each player has a penny and must secretly turn the penny to heads or tails.

  6. Heads and Tails - Wikipedia

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    Heads and Tails may refer to: Obverse and reverse, sides of a coin; Coin flipping; Heads and Tails (card game), a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. Heads and Tails (crowd game), touching ones head or tail; Heads and Tails, a 1995 Russian Film; Heads and Tails (Russian telecast), a Ukrainian Russian-speaking travel series

  7. Flipism - Wikipedia

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    It is neither a revelation of the wishes of the head of state (e.g., Julius Caesar, whose head was on the coin, ergo, heads showed "Caesar's will") nor the divination of a deity's will. [9] There are those who view the resort to flipism to be a disavowal of responsibility for making personal and societal decisions based upon rationality.

  8. Sleeping Beauty problem - Wikipedia

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    In the heads scenario, Sleeping Beauty would spend her wager amount one time, and receive 1 money for being correct. In the tails scenario, she would spend her wager amount twice, and receive nothing. Her expected value is therefore to gain 0.5 but also lose 1.5 times her wager, thus she should break even if her wager is 1/3.

  9. Fair coin - Wikipedia

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    Using for heads and for tails, the sample space of a coin is defined as: Ω = { H , T } {\displaystyle \Omega =\{H,T\}} The event space for a coin includes all sets of outcomes from the sample space which can be assigned a probability, which is the full power set 2 Ω {\displaystyle 2^{\Omega }} .