How To Use Science To Win At Rock-Paper-Scissors?

Mathematics + Decision Theory + Psychology = Win

Hemanth
Street Science
Published in
4 min readDec 4, 2021

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Rock-Paper-Scissors Game Diagram — A triangle with the three elements written at each vertex.
Image Created by The Walking Temple

Rock-Paper-Scissors is a children’s game. What does it have to do with science? Well, there are branches of science that figure out how games work. One such branch happens to be game theory.

And that’s where our story begins. Game theory researchers have been trying to…

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