ABSTRACT
Matt and Louie like gambling. However, they keep losing. One day Matt has an
idea. If they gamble against each other – they can’t both lose. So they elect to flip a
coin and the winner gets a pound.
Matt flips the coin first, and Louie calls ‘tails’. It comes up heads. Matt wins. Louie
calls ‘tails’ the next time, and the next time for twenty goes, and it keeps coming up
heads. Louie thinks the coin is bent, and changes his call to ‘heads’. On the very
next toss the coin is tails. ‘Typical!’ jokes Louie when he sees this, but after the
same thing happens for the next thirty-nine goes, all of which he loses calling
‘heads’, he is looking pretty glum. He tries another twenty times, calling ‘tails’ and
tossing the coin himself but now the coin is favouring heads. ‘You’re pretty unlucky,
today!’ says Matt, pocketing another twenty-pound note. ‘The odds on that
happening must be minuscule!’ Louie exclaims resentfully.
