Talk:Tips and Strategies/@comment-2601:19B:C400:770:4C85:6866:405A:E180-20191101025316

The math section is, uh... odd. While TTTT or HHHH only has a 6.25% chance of happening, that's also true of TTTH or HHHT, or HTHT, or TTHT. Any attempt to predict an exact series of 4 coin flips will result in a 6.25% chance of being correct. So if you consult the above table imagine it instead as a probibility tree. There's a 50% chance you get H or T, and you get H, then there's a 50% chance your next flip will be H or T, and so on. The probability of the next flip doesn't change based on the previous flip. It's always 50%. Unless of course the game codes it such that the probability of each flip isn't actually 50%, but I haven't seen that written anywhere.

Any inclination that HHHH or TTTT is more rare than any other specific sequence is based on the fact that, visually and psychologically they seem very unlikely. If you consult the table, however, each string of 4 flips lasted in each bottom cell is unique, meaning that actually HHHH and TTTT are not any more or less common than any of the other possibilities.