Heads or tails, drawn at exactly even odds by your browser’s crypto generator before the coin turns.
A fairer flip than a real coin
A real coin is close to fair, not exactly fair. A 2023 study that recorded 350,757 flips by hand found the coin landing on the side it started from about 50.8% of the time, as the mathematician Persi Diaconis had predicted years earlier: a tossed coin wobbles, and spends slightly longer with its starting side up.
The coin on this page has no starting side. The result is one draw between two values with equal probability, made by the browser’s cryptographic generator before the animation begins. The coin then makes the same four turns every time and stops on the face that was drawn.
Streaks are normal
The counter beside the coin shows heads, tails and the current streak. Long streaks feel suspicious and are not. Any five flips in a row all land the same way one time in sixteen, and in a hundred flips a streak of six or seven is expected.
What a streak never does is change the next flip. After nine heads, the tenth is still an even bet.
When a coin is the right tool
Two options, both acceptable, nobody willing to choose. If there are more than two options use the wheel; if the options are not equally acceptable, the decision matrix will serve you better than chance.