150.Seventeen Coins Against Sixteen
★★★classical probabilitySIG
You flip 17 fair coins and your opponent flips 16, simultaneously. You win only if you get strictly more heads than they do; ties or fewer heads go to them. What is your probability of winning?
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Set aside your last coin. After 16 each, exactly one of three things is true, and that final flip resolves the tie.
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