When you flip a coin to make a decision, there's an equal chance of getting heads and tails. What if you flipped two coins repeatedly, so that one option would win as soon as two heads showed up in a ...

Awareness of my proclivity for mathematical formulas and years spent as a child learning to game the system with countless how-to magic guides makes me wonder if I'm the only one who will find this ...

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. There are two types: Riddler Express for those of you who want ...

Flipping a coin is often the initial example used to help teach probability and statistics to maths students. Often, there is talk of how, given a fair coin, the probability of landing heads or tails ...

Does it matter who wins the coin toss before the Super Bowl? Should you care if your team loses the toss? Full disclosure: I don't really pay much attention to professional football (I'm more of a ...