Scientists find a winning strategy for rock-paper-scissors(arstechnica.com)

3 pointsby efficientarchvor 12 Jahren2 comments

Scientists find a winning strategy for rock-paper-scissors

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/win-at-rock-paper-scissors-by-knowing-thy-opponent/

2 comments

_xhokvor 12 Jahren

> This should work unless your opponent has read this article

Not even that. This won't work if you're playing someone who's consciously trying to play mind games.

(Usually the actual mind-games played are meaningless, but they alter the kind of instinctive psychology that underlies this strategy.)

dwdvor 12 Jahren

You can always over think it...

"The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right...and who is dead."