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Coffee or Tea

Can't decide what to brew? Flip a cozy coin between coffee and tea and get on with your morning.

☕ Coffee🍵 Tea
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☕ Coffee
🍵 Tea

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About this tool

About the Coffee or Tea

Standing at the counter, kettle ready, genuinely unable to choose between a coffee and a tea — it happens more often than anyone admits. Both are good. That is the problem. This coin exists for the small, pleasant deadlocks where the stakes are a mug of something warm either way, and the only wrong move is standing there deciding.

There is also a quiet case for letting chance run your brew order: it breaks autopilot. If you have drunk the same flat white every day for a year, a coin that occasionally lands on Tea is the cheapest variety you will ever add to a morning. Flip it at home, or at the café while the person ahead of you orders.

Four quick steps

How to use it

  1. Flip the coin before you reach for a mug.
  2. Coffee side up: brew or order whatever coffee sounds right today.
  3. Tea side up: same deal, but leaves instead of beans.
  4. Torn between two specific drinks instead? Rename the faces and flip again.

Starting options

What the two sides mean

Both sides are a warm drink, so the coin is really choosing which ritual you feel like committing to today.

Coffee
Beans in any form: filter, espresso, a flat white at the counter. Let it win when you want the sharper lift or the walk to the cafe.
Tea
Leaves of any kind, from strong builder's tea to something herbal at nine at night. The side to hope for when caffeine timing matters or you want the slower brew.

Useful moments

Good for

  • Break the daily what-do-I-brew pause at the kitchen counter.
  • Decide your café order before you reach the till.
  • Choose the 3pm pick-me-up when you have both options at your desk.
  • Let guests flip for their drink instead of politely saying "whatever is easier".

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can I flip for two specific drinks rather than the whole category?

Yes. Rename the two faces to the exact drinks you are torn between, whether that is cortado and green tea or two teas you keep buying. The rename saves in your browser, so the change sticks for you without an account and without anything being uploaded.

What if I want coffee to come up more often than tea?

Turn on weighted odds and give Coffee the larger share. The flip stays genuinely random, just tilted, which suits someone who drinks coffee most days and only wants tea to surface occasionally. Set the weights back to even whenever you want a true fifty-fifty again.

Can I use it to sort out a round of drinks for several people?

You can, one flip per person, and the flip history keeps a record of what each one landed on so nobody relitigates it. Past a couple of people, a wheel loaded with everyone's usual order is faster than repeating the same two-sided question.

Is it cheating to flip again when I do not like the answer?

Slightly, though the urge is useful information: if Tea landing makes you reach straight for the grinder, you wanted coffee. Best-of-three is the honest middle ground when one flip feels too abrupt, since it settles as soon as one side has won twice.

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