Penney's Game - Numberphile
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I'm gonna show you a little bit of a scam, or a trick, that you can try out on people. So, what I'm going to ask you to do, is to pick a sequence of three coin tosses. So, you know, heads-tails-heads, or tails-tails-tails. Brady: "Tails-tails-heads." Okay. So, Brady's picking tails-tails-heads. And I will pick heads-tails-tails. And the game is: we're gonna toss this coin and see who gets that first. So, let's see who wins. We'll do a best of 5. Okay? Something like that. Okay, so, let's try game Number 1. All right, here we go. So, number 1... All right, let's write down this sequence. Heads. Okay, that's pretty good actually; that's good for me. Yeah, it's good for me, not good for you. All rig...
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I'm gonna show you a little bit of a scam, or a trick, that you can try out on people. So, what I'm going to ask you to do, is to pick a sequence of three coin tosses. So, you know, heads-tails-heads, or tails-tails-tails. Brady: "Tails-tails-heads." Okay. So, Brady's picking tails-tails-heads. And I will pick heads-tails-tails. And the game is: we're gonna toss this coin and see who gets that first. So, let's see who wins. We'll do a best of 5. Okay? Something like that. Okay, so, let's try game Number 1. All right, here we go. So, number 1... All right, let's write down this sequence. Heads. Okay, that's pretty good actually; that's good for me. Yeah, it's good for me, not good for you. All rig...
