So I found a Canadian cent (despite never having been anywhere near Canada), and considered it a wonderful opportunity to have an experimental adventure with this well-travelled little coin.
This is a game for 2 people. (Coins are best suited to binary choices.)
The coin first decides who will drive. For safety purposes, the coin flipping from then on must be done by the other person. (If they don't have excellent hand-eye coordination, you might want to use a slightly less fiddly little coin than a Canadian cent.)
From the moment you hit the main road out of town, the coin decides your every move. Flip it before every junction (familiarity with the roads helps here). Tails tells you to
tail-off at the junction, or else you continue straight a-
head. Use your discretion at a cross-road to reduce the chance of ending up back at home / somewhere where food might be scarce.
When you think you've gone far enough, or you're starting to genuinely panic about where your next meal might come from*, limit yourself to 3 more flips. (If you'd thought ahead you might have already decided on a flip limit from the outset. Smartarse.) After the final flip, stop at the first town / village / industrial park you come to and reward yourself with a spot of lunch, whilst reflecting on all the fun / mild peril you've had on your adventure.
Conclusion: this is a highly enjoyable way to explore strange and hazardous roads you would never have deliberately chosen to drive down, and travel many circuitous miles to potentially end up somewhere quite close to home.
*Or is it just me that does this? I think I might be trying to channel my inner hunter-gatherer by deliberately adding an element of uncertainty to the process of finding lunch. I definitely appreciated my chicken and chutney wrap a lot more for it.
