Rock, Paper, Scissors

By Eric Mattes 18 Apr 2003

There’s a whole world of RPS out there that I never knew about! Although it’s a pretty trivial game for most people, computer scientists (being who they are) have been exploring the strategy behind this seemingly random game. However, you’ve got to admit that when you play, you do have a strategy of some sort. It is this fact that the computer RPS opponents will attempt to exploit. Check out this page for the current champion:


http://ofb.net/~egnor/iocaine.html


also check this one out for some real-time action that you can play on the web:


http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/writings/lz_rps/


-E

Tags: rock paper scissors