In the game Rock, Paper, Scissors, two opponents randomly toss out hand gestures, and each one wins, loses or draws with equal probability. It's supposed to be a game of pure luck, not skill — and ...

In the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors," two opponents randomly toss out hand gestures, and each one wins, loses or draws with equal probability. It's supposed to be a game of pure luck, not skill — and ...

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 ...

Rock-Paper-Scissors is (quite possibly) one of the most important games in the world. People use it to determine who gets the front seat of the car, who has to take out the trash, and who gets the ...

Called HandBot, it’s a D.I.Y. robotic hand which can recognize your hand gestures and mimic them back to you, or compete against you in a classic game of rock-paper-scissors. To do this, it uses some ...

The beauty of rock-paper-scissors is that it equalizes the odds of success among the players, like a coin toss, but still provides the illusion that there’s some agency involved. (Your ...