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hiijacker
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So it seems I need to stump the Pepper:

Here goes.

You are blindfolded and enter into a room. The room has a table with 100 quarters scattered. Your are told that 20 of these quarters are tails and 80 are heads. You are also told that if you can split the coins into 2 piles where the number of tails is the same in both piles, then you get to keep all of the quarters. You are allowed to move the coins, but you can never tell what state a quarter is currently in (the blindfold prevents you from seeing, and you cannot tell by feeling it).

How do you go about splitting the quarters so that you can win?