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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. Super Bowl 59 betting: Coin toss, Gatorade bath and odds on ...

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    At BetMGM, 53% of the money bet on the coin toss already is on tails. The history says that tails has come up 30 times and heads 28 in the 58 Super Bowl coin tosses.

  7. 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.

  8. Heads or Tails (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Heads or Tails, or Testa o croce, or Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, an Italian comedy film; Heads or Tails, or Pismo - Glava, a 1983 drama film by Bahrudin Čengić; Heads or Tails, or Pile ou face, a Canadian film; Heads or Tails, or J'en suis!, a Canadian film; Heads or Tails, an American drama

  9. Checking whether a coin is fair - Wikipedia

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    The symbols H and T represent more generalised variables expressing the numbers of heads and tails respectively that might have been observed in the experiment. Thus N = H + T = h + t. Next, let r be the actual probability of obtaining heads in a single toss of the coin. This is the property of the coin which is being investigated.