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Purpose: To contest a truly random chance.
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Teaser Description: A true binary random number fetcher with a twist - Flip a realistic-probability coin inside a virtual machine, with a bit of plinko to beat the odds! Sure, the weather 3000 miles away might affect your coin toss, but in the end, you're controlling the butterfly effect with plinko!
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Detailed Description: The temperatures of three random cities in the USA is fetched via Weather API and a three-legged random walk is constructed from the deviation from average temperature by month and state. The trajectory that deviates from a straight path leads to a plinko pin board where chance can be contested by sending a SMS with the pin number you wish to raise. The starting position on the plinko pin board is determined by the deviations from the random walk, but depending on how the pins are raised, the ball might end up the right -- or left -- of chance, giving you exactly the tails -- or heads -- that you wanted in the coin flip.
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No, really, what is this?: It's a Rube Goldberg random number coin flipper (a random number generator that returns only 0 or 1, heads or tails, red pill, blue pill).
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Where's the butterfly: They say that if a butterfly halfway around the world flaps its wings, due to a tiny change effecting a whole bunch of other things, a hurricane might start right here. Instead of being dependent on the oft-not-so-random random number seed on computers, the binary random number generator here uses the weather and some plinko virtual physics.
