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When I was a kid I found through trial and error that by tossing a quarter and catching it a certain way I could seem to predetermine the outcome.
I just tried it and I've sadly lost the ability. Magic really does fade with adulthood.
Yeah, I could time the flips and almost 9 times out of 10 "guess" which side it was going to be. I'm not going to lie and say that I didn't game the absolute fuck out of that ability as a kid. We played street sports all the time, so it was pretty handy.
Well, you basically determined the number of turns the coin took.
Kids are stupid, what can I say?
I'm still kind of a kid at heart, in that way.
Flip such that the maximum rotation is achieved, height should be a natural arc a few feet high, then with open palm, strike down at the coin like your smashing a fly on a tabletop, and snatch it out of the air.
My buddy Julian taught me this 40 years ago... Doing it right now and I can still make it come heads every time. Why though?
Spent that shit on single candies at the Mr. Bill.