Step 8 – heads or tails
In series 16 of the TV show Taskmaster, one task involved the contestants having to toss a coin and get five consecutive heads.
If you throw a tails you have to start again.
This can be coded in Python – but I'm not going to show you all of the answer.
A coin is just a die with 2 sides if you think about it.
- Use a new program
- The code in the screenshot shows you some of the code you need
- The rest of the code is the ideas you can find in the other steps
This isn't easy. But it's not difficult either.
This was actually a task in series 3 of Taskmaster New Zealand first if you want to be really picky.
The probability of throwing 5 heads in a row is 1 in 32 by the way
Some of these ideas can be used in other projects.