Rock, Paper, Scissors: Best first move?

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What is the strongest first move? Why do you choose this option? What strategy do you use after the first throw? How many moves ahead do you think?

[rwesty]

Obviously the one that beats the one that wins this poll.

[ethan]

Good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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Good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!

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I pick paper. 1-0 to me. Playing predictable is not smart in this game, son [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img].

[newhizzle]

scissors is the obvious answer, if you are going to play this game successfully you must lean to use third level thinking

your opponent thinks you will choose rock and he will choose paper, therfore you must choose scissors, unless he is too smart for that and will choose rock, then paper is the correct answer

[ethan]

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Good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!

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I pick paper. 1-0 to me. Playing predictable is not smart in this game, son [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img].

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Apparently, the reference was too obscure.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...eats+that%21+"

The Simpsons were what got me started on this game.

[evil_twin]

I didn't answer, although I may give any old answer later to see the results.

But seriously, this game is all about your opponent. It is not a random game. The same few people win the RPS world championship each year. Seriously. If you need to decide something randomly, DO NOT use RPS to decide it, unless of course you know you have an edge over your opponent.

See this book.

Also, one throw is not enough. RPS should be played in bouts of three throws in quick succesion.

I won 30 quid (what maybe 45 bucks?) on Friday night playing this after going out for curry and beers. It paid for my evening.

PS Ethan please fix your link, you've broken the page [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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Good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!

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I pick paper. 1-0 to me. Playing predictable is not smart in this game, son [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img].

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Apparently, the reference was too obscure.



The Simpsons were what got me started on this game.

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So much effort in defending your loss instead of just accepting defeat [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]. I offer you a rematch though, we send eachother a PM (as word of honor we don't open the one we receive until we have sent).

[splashpot]

Ethan and Arnfin, if you see this in time, please edit your posts to remove that link.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

I did now. It did not [censored] up my screen, why yours [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]