Coin Flip

    Flip a virtual coin. Heads or tails?

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    About this tool

    Make a two-outcome random choice with a virtual coin. Each flip compares JavaScript’s pseudo-random value with 0.5: values below the midpoint produce heads and the rest produce tails. The animated result, history, and running totals let you follow a short sequence without finding a physical coin or recording every outcome manually. Use one flip to decide who starts a board game, heads for takeout and tails for cooking, or which team chooses first. Ten flips might produce 6 heads and 4 tails; that short-run imbalance is normal and does not mean the next flip is more likely to be tails. Reset clears the accumulated session when a new decision begins. The theoretical probability is 50% for each outcome on every independent flip, but small samples rarely divide exactly in half. This browser-based pseudo-random process is suitable for casual choices and probability demonstrations, not gambling, audited drawings, cryptography, or any decision requiring a verifiable random source. Agree on what heads and tails represent before flipping, and use a clear rule for repeating a result if participants accidentally trigger the button more than once.

    How to use

    1

    Select "Flip Coin" to toss the animated coin.

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    Repeat the flip to build "Flip History" and the Heads, Tails, and Total counts.

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    Press "Reset" in the history card whenever you want to clear the session.

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