Science Has Finally Figured Out Exactly How To Win At ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ Everytime
The outcome of “Rock, Paper, Scissors”
may seem as random as the card game “War,” but research has shown that
there is indeed an efficient method in predicting a player’s strategy.
According to the Huffington Post, scientists from Zhejiang University in China had 360 students play 300 rounds of the hand game.
The players swapped opponents after each round and were paid in cash
if they won in order to make sure they were really trying their hardest.
The scientists found that winners tended to repeat the same cycle of
moves in the next rounds. Players who lost, on the other hand, tended to
switch their moves in what has been named a “clockwise” direction,
meaning they went from rock to paper, paper to scissors, or scissors to
rock.
So if a player loses a game by playing “rock,” that player will most likely play “paper” next.
If the player wins a round, he or she is most likely to play the winning move again.
The only real strategy, in other words, is to pay attention to your
opponent’s moves, anticipate what’s coming next and play the hand that
beats it.
Experienced players may anticipate these strategies but most of these
volunteers took to these patterns subconsciously like a reflex.
The researchers’ findings were published April 21 in a paper called
“Social Cycling and Conditional Responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors
Game.”
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