Your coin is not streaky. You are.
Six heads in a row feels rigged. It is the most ordinary thing a coin does. Inside the strange psychology of random runs.
A fair coin has no memory, and a specific run is just a specific pattern. Six heads in a row is one pattern out of every possible six-flip pattern:
Unlikely in any given six flips — but flip 200 times and there are 195 overlapping windows of six, so expect roughly three such runs. Streaks are not rare; they are scheduled. And after five heads, the sixth flip is still exactly 50/50.
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