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From Unequal Chance to a Coin Game Dance: Variants of Penney’s Game Cover

From Unequal Chance to a Coin Game Dance: Variants of Penney’s Game

Open Access
|Oct 2021

Abstract

We start by exploring and analyzing the various aspects of Penney’s game, examining its possible outcomes as well as its fairness (or lack thereof). In search of a fairer game, we create many variations of the original Penney’s game by altering its rules. Specifically, we introduce the Head-Start Penney’s game, the Post-a-Bobalyptic Penney’s game, the Second-Occurrence Penney’s game, the Two-Coin game, the No-Flippancy game, and the Blended game. We then analyze each of these games and the odds of winning for both players.

Language: English
Page range: 19 - 38
Published on: Oct 22, 2021
Published by: Ludus Association
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2021 Isha Agarwal, Matvey Borodin, Aidan Duncan, Kaylee Ji, Shane Lee, Boyan Litchev, Anshul Rastogi, Garima Rastogi, Andrew Zhao, Tanya Khovanova, published by Ludus Association
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.