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1. The sock drawer2. Successive wins3. The flippant juror4. Trials until first success5. Coin in square6. Chuck-a-luck7. Curing the compulsive gambler8. Perfect bridge hand9. Craps10. An experiment in personal taste for money11. Silent cooperation12. Quo vadis?13. The prisoner's dilemma14. "Collecting coupons, including Euler's approximation for harmonic sums"15. The theater row16. Will second-best be runner-up?17. Twin knights18. "An even split at coin tossing, including Stirling's approximation"19. Isaac Newton helps Samuel Pepys20. The three-cornered duel21. Should you sample with or without replacement?22. The ballot box23. Ties in matching pennies24. The unfair subway25. Lengths of random chords26. The hurried duelers27. Catching the cautious counterfeiter28. "Catching the greedy counterfeiter, including the Poisson distribution"29. Moldy gelation30. Evening the sales31. Birthday pairings32. Finding your birthmate33. Relating the birthday pairings and birthmate problems34. Birthday holidays35. The cliff-hanger36. Gambler's ruin37. Bold play vs. cautious play38. The thick coin Digression: A note on the principle of symmetry when points are dropped on a line
39. The clumsy chemist40. The first ace41. The locomotive problem42. The little end of the stick43. The broken bar44. Winning an unfair game45. Average number of matches46. Probabilities of matches47. Choosing the largest dowry48. Choosing the largest random number49. Doubling your accuracy50. Random quadratic equations51. Two-dimensional random walk52. Three-dimensional random walk53. Buffon's needle54. Buffon's needle with horizontal and vertical rulings55. Long needles56. Molina's urns