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 ...

While rock, paper, scissors is usually seen as a game of luck, a scientist has revealed what they claim is a surefire way to beat your friends. According to Dr Denise Moerel, a cognitive scientist at ...

Call it a cult phenomenon. Say it’s all a matter of luck or plan a strategy. Just don’t dismiss Rock, Paper, Scissors as a kids’ game. What used to determine as mundane of decisions as who gets the ...

Because contemporary pop culture has so embraced this ubiquitous hand-to-hand game, TikTok user Nick Metzler showed interested users how to win consistently. Using psychology (and a bit of strategy) ...

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 ...

My opponent and I faced each other across the white lines, separated by an arm's length in the dark, smoky bar. He planted his feet firmly, shoulder-width apart, while I fell into a fighting stance, ...

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 ...