"Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin. And despite being designed around random chance, it has a vibrant speedrunning community, racing to see who can get to 10 heads the fastest. That's the only goal. You earn money with each heads and can spend that on four things: a more valuable coin, a combo multiplier for heads streaks, a faster flip time, and an increased heads chance, which starts at 20 percent and maxes out at 60 percent."
"But only nearly. The perfect run would essentially be entirely good fortune - it is hypothetically possible for someone to load the game and flip 10 heads in a row instantly, ending it in about 20 seconds. The odds of this are a hair under one in 20 million. But the thing about probability is that if enough players try for long enough, it eventually becomes statistically likely."
Unfair Flips is a minimalist coin-flip game where players flip until reaching 10 heads. Each head awards money used to buy four upgrades: higher coin value, combo multipliers, faster flip speed, and higher head probability (20–60 percent). Perfect runs depend heavily on luck, but upgrade choices and timing provide strategic edges. The current record is 96 flips and 2 minutes 52 seconds, though an ideal 10-head streak could finish in about 20 seconds with long odds. An active Discord community analyzes strategies and spreadsheets to optimize purchasing and improve chances.
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