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Main Authors: Basdevant, Anne-Laure, Hénard, Olivier, Maurel-Segala, Edouard, Singh, Arvind
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.20049
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  • A fair coin is flipped $n$ times, and two finite sequences of heads and tails (words) $A$ and $B$ of the same length are given. Each time the word $A$ appears in the sequence of coin flips, Alice gets a point, and each time the word $B$ appears, Bob gets a point. Who is more likely to win? This puzzle is a slight extension of Litt's game that recently set Twitter abuzz. We show that Litt's game is fair for any value of $n$ and any two words that have the same auto-correlation structure by building up a bijection that exchanges Bob and Alice scores; the fact that the inter-correlation does not come into play in this case may come up as a surprise.