Ever played "Rock, Paper, Scissors" as a kid? Did you win consistently, after five or ten tries? The game, played by two or more people, is known by many names, including 'rock-scissors-paper', paper-rock-scissors, paper-scissors-rock, fargling, cachi-pún, scissors-paper-rock/stone, jan-ken-pon, "jenken" kauwi-bauwi-bo, and rochambeau. Frequently, it is used as a selection method in a way similar to coin flipping, drawing straws, or throwing dice. Who wins and who loses depends upon several simple rules. Rock blunts or breaks scissors: that is, rock defeats scissors. Scissors cut paper: scissors defeats paper. Paper covers or captures rock: paper defeats rock. Technically, because of the ways that the rules work, it is a mathematically non-transitive game -- i.e., a game for which the various strategies produce one or more "loops" of preferences.
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Wednesday, August 25. 2010
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