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  2. Penney's game - Wikipedia

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    Player A selects a sequence of heads and tails (of length 3 or larger), and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same length. Subsequently, a fair coin is tossed until either player A's or player B's sequence appears as a consecutive subsequence of the coin toss outcomes. The player ...

  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. Two-up - Wikipedia

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    In some games, coins are placed tails (white cross) up. In casino games the coins are placed with opposing (one head, one tail) sides up. Toss the Kip The Spinner hands the kip back to the Ringkeeper before a possibly losing throw, i.e. to retire after a winning throw. Heads Both coins land with the "head" side facing up.

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  6. 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. The players then reveal their choices simultaneously. If the pennies match (both heads or both tails), then Even wins and keeps both pennies.

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  8. Flipism - Wikipedia

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    Flipism, sometimes spelled "flippism", is a personal philosophy under which decisions are made by flipping a coin.It originally appeared in the Donald Duck Disney comic "Flip Decision" [1] [2] by Carl Barks, published in 1953.

  9. St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia

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    The first time heads appears, the game ends and the player wins whatever is the current stake. Thus the player wins 2 dollars if heads appears on the first toss, 4 dollars if tails appears on the first toss and heads on the second, 8 dollars if tails appears on the first two tosses and heads on the third, and so on.