There's an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible.

In competitive scenarios where unpredictability is advantageous, this innate tendency to rely on history can be a significant liability ...

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 ...

Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and… A common line of thinking among modern video game fans goes something like this: ...

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 ...