With more than eighteen centuries of existence, the game?Stone, paper and scissors? She’s one of the best known in the world. It is native to China, during the Han Dynasty (206 BC?220 A. D. ), and since then, its progress is impossible to stop, first exported to Japanese lands and then expanded, over the last century, throughout the West.
And what was one of the ingredients of their success ?, well, mainly the simplicity of their dynamics, where each player only had to remove one of the three elements (stone, paper and scissors) and each could win over the other, respectively. In this way, young people and adults could spend time having fun without the worries of everyday life.
- However.
- Despite its easy planning.
- Countless mathematicians and scientists from around the world have asked the following question: is there any kind of formula that unfafalably wins this meeting?The bottom line is that the best way to compete and win in this game is to be as random as possible.
- That is.
- At no time is it necessary to follow a specific pattern.
- Since all we can do is get our opponent to read?and learn how to get around the strategy.
The theory of randomness in games comes from the “Nash Balance”, idealized by John Nash, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has studied all possible combinations of the game to create a supposedly foolproof method to win. For this reason, and aware of the great boom that would be to have the secret of victory, mathematician Zhijian Wang made the following experience: he took 360 players and put them at stake between them, with any victory they would receive a bonus in the form of money, to give more excitement and competitiveness to the tournament.
Once the experiment was over, each player admitted that they wanted to play as randomly as possible, but you know what was the worst of it all?What they could not achieve, that is, although each participant knew that the best way to win was not to follow specific parameters, unconsciously their mind said, for example, that if they had already played with two stones in a row, the next option had to be different to win.
Once you know, would you like to know at least one way to increase your chances of winning at Rock Paper Scissors? So be careful with the following tips:
Starting with paper will increase the chances of winning the first time. Why would you do that? Because almost everyone starts with the stone.
Read your opponent’s moves. As we’ve said before, almost no one chooses the next random move, for this reason, always read the moves and anticipate the next action.
No one uses the same item three times in a row. This way, if you’ve used it twice, quickly change your strategy to win.
If possible, play blindfolded. This way, you can be as random as possible, as you won’t imitate or read your opponent’s moves.