There's an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible.

In competitive scenarios where unpredictability is advantageous, this innate tendency to rely on history can be a significant liability ...

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 ...

It’s time for another apparently ridiculous analogy linking together a basic facet of the natural world with a piece of pop culture ephemera! This time around, rock-paper-scissors explains why three ...

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 ...