Rock-Paper-Scissors works great for deciding who has to take out the garbage. But have you ever noticed what happens when, instead of playing best of three, you just let the game continue round after ...

Whether duking it out over who gets to ride the slide first on the playground or who gets the last slice of pizza on date night, the time-honored hand game of chance has always come in handy when ...

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 ...

In this article, I'm going to tackle a children's game that's extraordinarily complicated, with many variations, and the programming task is going to be quite tricky. Just kidding! Rock Paper Scissors ...

A game designer from New York has revealed exactly how to always win rock, paper, scissors. Everyone knows the iconic hand game where technically, players have a one-in-three chance of winning, ...

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 ...