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  2. Heads and Tails (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Rules. 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 ...

  3. Penney's game - Wikipedia

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    Penney's game. Penney's game, named after its inventor Walter Penney, is a binary (head/tail) sequence generating game between two players. 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.

  4. Matching pennies - Wikipedia

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    Tails. −1, +1. +1, −1. Matching pennies. 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 ...

  5. Sleeping Beauty problem - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Beauty problem. The Sleeping Beauty problem, also known as the Sleeping Beauty paradox, [1] is a puzzle in decision theory in which an ideally rational epistemic agent is told she will be awoken from sleep either once or twice according to the toss of a coin. Each time she will have no memory of whether she has been awoken before, and ...

  6. 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. The party who calls the side that is facing up when the coin lands wins.

  7. Heads and tails: Heavenly Dragon Lion Dance brings tradition ...

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    American-Statesman: Tell us about your history with the art of lion dance. Kevin Gian: A big part of my childhood growing up was Lunar New Year.It's kind of like Thanksgiving, plus Christmas, plus ...

  8. 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.

  9. Heads and Tails - Wikipedia

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    Heads and Tails. Heads and Tails may refer to: Heads and Tails (card game), a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. Heads and Tails (film), a 1995 Russian Film. Heads and Tails (Russian telecast), a Ukrainian Russian-speaking travel series. Heads and Tails (TV series), a British children's programme.