GOOD OLD ROCK, NOTHING BEATS ROCK

But if you’re a thinker and not a fighter, and you don’t settle your dispute with fist fights, you’ll be happy to know that scientists have tackled the problem of how to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors and they’ve come up with some helpful strategies. First off all, you will ususally win your RPS match by throwing scissors on the first turn. The theory claims that because everyone knows that throwing rock is the most popular move in the game, most opponents use paper on their first move in order to try to beat the rock. Ergo, scissors will usually win on the first try. But ife that doesn’t work, the scientists found that the next best strategy is the double bluff, in which you tell your opponent what you’re going to use next, and then you actually use it. "No one believes you'll do it,” claimed one of the researchers who worked on this report, “so they won't play the throw that beats the throw you are playing." (New Scientist)