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Tossing a coin. 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 ...
Coin flipping and drawing straws are fair methods of randomly determining a player. Fizz Buzz is a spoken word game where if a player slips up and speaks a word out of sequence, they are eliminated. Common rhymes
Games which use coins as playing pieces. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. C. Coin flipping (12 P) Coin magic (24 P)
Pages in category "Coin flipping" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Coin flipping (12 P) D. Dice games (5 C, 73 P) G. Gambling games (26 C, 96 P) Pages in category "Games of chance" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of ...
Odds and evens is a simple game of chance and hand game, involving two people simultaneously revealing a number of fingers and winning or losing depending on whether they are odd or even, or alternatively involving one person picking up coins or other small objects and hiding them in their closed hand, while another player guesses whether they have an odd or even number.
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
The St. Petersburg paradox or St. Petersburg lottery [1] is a paradox involving the game of flipping a coin where the expected payoff of the lottery game is infinite but nevertheless seems to be worth only a very small amount to the participants. The St. Petersburg paradox is a situation where a naïve decision criterion that takes only the ...