For example, scissors beats paper because "scissors cut paper", and rock beats scissors because "rock beats scissors". If both players pick the same option, it's a tie and the game proceeds. Although ...

For example, if you lost to your partner playing rock, you can be relatively certain that they're going to pick rock again in the next round. Knowing this, your choice is obvious: Play paper. Voila!

For example, say you’re playing with six cards (the last row in our pyramid above). If you draw the biggest or smallest card (the outer numbers of the row), you have 62 ways to win.

If you say you're going with Paper, for example, your opponent thinks you won't, Walker explained. Subconsciously, they'll shy away from Scissors (which beats Paper), and choose Rock or Paper instead.

After that, the robot hand plays one of rock, paper and scissors so as to beat the human being in 1ms. This technology is one example that show[s] a possibility of cooperation control within a few ...

Players of the game rock paper scissors subconsciously copy each other's hand shapes, significantly increasing the chance of the game ending in a draw, according to new research.

An program called Deep Mauve went up against some of the planet's best RPS players in 2004 at the World Rock Paper Scissors Competition in 2004. Rather than use any kind of complex strategy, Deep ...