Yes or No
A coin with Yes on one side and No on the other. Both answers are exactly 50%. Use it for questions where you would honestly be content with either outcome.
Flip it
Each flip is an independent 50/50 draw from your browser's random number generator. A run of five or six the same way is normal in 100 flips — that is what surprises people most.
Read this before you use the answer
A coin is only a good way to decide something you are genuinely indifferent about. Where to eat, who goes first, which of two equally fine options to try. It is not a way to decide anything medical, legal or financial, and not anything touching someone’s safety.
If the answer here disappoints you, that feeling is the actual answer. Use it instead of the coin. The most useful thing a fifty-fifty tool does is show you which result you were quietly hoping for.
The odds, exactly
Yes 50%, No 50%. Nothing carries over from one answer to the next, so after three No answers the next one is still an even split. No result is ever due.
Best of three is mostly theatre
Ask three times and take the majority, and the majority agrees with your very first answer 75% of the time. The overall split stays 50/50, so best of three does not make the decision more considered. It mostly gives you two extra chances to notice you did not like the first answer.
Runs of the same answer
- Two answers the same: 50%.
- Five identical answers in a row: 6.25%, one stretch in sixteen.
- Five Yes answers specifically: one in thirty-two.
Those runs are ordinary. A short streak is evidence of nothing at all.
If you would rather see it as a coin, call heads or tails or use the plain coin flip. To watch how streaky an honest coin looks, flip one ten times.