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Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. There are two types: Riddler Express for those of you who want ...

That’s how Tim Chartier, an applied mathematician specializing in sports analytics, explains the trend behind one of the NFL’s most debated rituals: the Super Bowl coin toss. On paper, the toss is a ...

A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s okay, ...