A group of friends gather together to play monopoly

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A group of friends gather together to play Monopoly on a Saturday night. Unfortunately, they do not find any dice. They only have a fair coin at hand. Can you help them design a mechanism to sample the numbers one to six with equal probability by only using one fair coin? (Hint: there are no restrictions on how many times you flip the coin to get a number)

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