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

  3. Heads and Tails (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Heads and Tails is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. It is mostly based on luck. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Two-up - Wikipedia

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    Two-up is a traditional Australian gambling game, involving a designated "spinner" throwing two coins, usually Australian pennies, into the air. Players bet on whether the coins will both fall with heads (obverse) up, both with tails (reverse) up, or with a head and one a tail (known as "Ewan").

  7. Matching pennies - Wikipedia

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    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 Even wins and keeps both pennies.

  8. Law of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    In particular, the proportion of heads after n flips will almost surely converge to 1 ⁄ 2 as n approaches infinity. Although the proportion of heads (and tails) approaches 1 ⁄ 2, almost surely the absolute difference in the number of heads and tails will become large as the number of flips becomes large. That is, the probability that the ...

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

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    The head player is responsible for controlling the physical (movements) inside the head frame. We have a lot of strings and moving parts inside the lion head that you can use to maneuver the mouth ...