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How Do I Win Rock Paper Scissors Every Time
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- kqr2 16y agoThere was a RPS programming competition which tested various algorithms against each other: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html My favorite was Iocaine Powder. The strategy is explained in more detail here: http://www.ofb.net/~egnor/iocaine.html http://www.ofb.net/~egnor/iocaine.html Iocaine is also a reference to a well known scene in The Princess Bride http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes?qt0482733 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes?qt0482733
- joshu 16y agoThat was a fun competition. A good friend won it the first year.
- DeusExMachina 16y agoIt helps to be a good mentalist too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwzGBRTiEg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwzGBRTiEg
- Monkeyget 16y agoInteresting. The two first players all followed the same linear move order: player 1 : scissor -> rock -> paper -> scissor -> rock player 2 : paper -> scissor -> rock -> paper -> scissor player 3 : scissor
- cjlars 16y agoYou'll notice he keeps suggesting his opponent's throws. He demonstrates the game to the first player with scissors, who then throws scissors. Then he demonstrates how "rock smashes scissors", so his opponent thinks "Rock!" and throws it. Later in the video, he flashes scissors for no apparent reason before a throw, with success. Watch the video, he 'seeds' his opponents throughout.
- ryanf 16y ago#3 has been my strategy since childhood, and it works surprisingly well against people who don't know the trick.
- kqr2 16y agoAlso, for those who feel that standard RPS-3 is not challenging, there is always RPS-101 (of which RPS-3 is a mere subset) http://www.umop.com/rps101.htm http://www.umop.com/rps101.htm
- Devilboy 16y agoThere's an annual RPS tournament in Las Vegas with a $500 buy-in. Andy Bloch from MIT blackjack team and high stakes poker fame is one proud RPS champion. Pretty serious business!
- hristov 16y agoNumber 4 makes absolutely no sense. Even if the authors presumption is correct (i.e., that the opponent will not throw a rock), countering with a rock still gives you only a 50% chance of winning and 50% chance of loss. If the presumption were correct, it would be better to counter with scissors. Then you get 50% chance of winning and 50%chance of tie.
- radu_floricica 16y agoIs there a tie?
- rivo 16y agoI remember reading an article a while back about some World Championship of Rock Paper Scissors. The winner back then said that most players with a "strategy" eventually failed. The only thing he did was think of a random sequence before playing and then stick to it.