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A Roman coin with the head of Pompey the Great on the obverse and a ship on the reverse. Coin flipping was known to the Romans as navia aut caput ("ship or head"), as some coins had a ship on one side and the head of the emperor on the other. [1] In England, this was referred to as cross and pile. [1] [2]
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It is an interactive fiction video game written by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released simultaneously for Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and Mac. Nord and Bert is unique among Infocom games in that it presents wordplay puzzles. It was Infocom's twenty ...
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.
In Casino games the Spinner may bet on either heads or tails. In Casinos, no side bets are permitted; all bets are placed with the Casino as bank. Two Up game has been used to develop a quantum game called Quantum Two Up [6] in which the coins are entangled. To win the game, one has to discover the law of entanglement that favors a particular ...
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.
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
If one penny is heads and the other tails, Odd wins and keeps both coins. 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.
This game is a two-person zero-sum game. In order to play this game, both players will each need to be given a fair two-sided penny. To start the game, both player will each choose to either flip their penny to heads or tails. This action is to be done in secrecy and there should be no attempt at investigating the choice of the other player.