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 ...

Maybe it isn't all about luck after all.

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 ...

When two people in America need to make a boolean decision and a coin isn’t available, the go-to method of problem resolution is Rock, Paper, Scissors. Generally people feel this game is fair, meaning ...

Hypothetically, suppose you are about to play a total stranger a single game (not 2 out of 3 or anything, just best 1 out of 1) of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Just before you start the game, a friend of ...

It's a lot about luck. But in the fast-paced and precarious sport of Rock Paper Scissors, strategy and being able to look the other guy in the eye count for something, too. "When you're just playing ...

“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 ...