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 ...

Maybe it isn't all about luck after all.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Of all the decisions Cary Greif has made in her 38 years, this should have been among the simplest. "I had prepared. I had gone online and looked over strategies. But when I got up there, ...

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, ...