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 ...

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 ...

Ever since I can remember, I’ve always been a rock, paper, scissors sucker. On every family road trip, I’d end up in the backseat. At every pizza party, I’d watch idly as my brother devoured the last ...

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 ...

It's a game that's used to settle debates around the world. But when it comes to 'rock, paper, scissors', what is the best ...

When two oiled gladiators enter the ring, size each other up, and start throwing rocks, paper, or scissors at one another, they have a number of strategies at their disposal to gain the upper hand.

You know the score: paper wraps rock, rock blunts scissors, scissors cut paper… It’s just a trivial way of making decisions about whose round it is at the bar, who gets the TV remote, that kind ...