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Rock-paper-scissors is a game of pure chance, right? Studies have found there are actually winning strategies.

Rock-Paper-Scissors is one of the oldest and most popular games out there. It is used not just for fun, but also to make ...
Yahoo

How to win at rock, paper, scissors — use this simple strategy to psych out your opponent

A game designer has revealed his strategy for triumphing over an opponent in a game of rock, paper, scissors. New Yorker Nick Metzler, or @nickmetzler1 on TikTok, recently took to the popular social ...
Popular Science

How rock-paper-scissors champs use psychology to win

This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This is an excerpt from veteran game designer Greg Costikyan’s book “Uncertainty in Games.” Unless you have lived in a Skinner box from an early ...
Psychology Today

The Surprising Psychology of Rock-Paper-Scissors

“No washing dishes for me tonight," I said after I beat my sister at a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS). I was 10, and RPS was our “go-to” game of fate to decide all kinds of issues. Little did I ...
Kotaku

RPS - Rock Paper Scissors

Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and… A common line of thinking among modern video game fans goes something like this: ...