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News, strategy, and updates from the Rock Paper Scissors community. 47 articles.
A step-by-step plan for running a Rock Paper Scissors tournament: format, brackets, referees, match rules, timing, prizes and a day-of checklist.
How to run a Rock Paper Scissors charity fundraiser, use RPS for team-building, and when a throw is a fair way to settle a decision.
How the Fire, Water and Grass triangle works like Rock Paper Scissors, other type cycles in the chart, and where the analogy breaks down in Pokemon battles.
Simple ways to score Rock Paper Scissors: rounds, best-of-3 and best-of-5 matches, sets, how to handle ties, and how to track a group game or a bracket.
Does practice help in Rock Paper Scissors? Yes, against human opponents. Six practice drills that sharpen timing, pattern reading and throw discipline.
The voice commands to play rock paper scissors on an Amazon Echo, how the Alexa skills work, what to do if Alexa does not understand, and other ways to play.
No method wins every time, but people are predictable. How to read first throws, win-stay and lose-shift habits, using a 2014 study and WRPSA throw data.
Which throws are illegal in rock paper scissors, why dynamite and the well are banned, and the common ways people cheat, from late throws to hand switching.
Why some people call rock paper scissors an evil game: the Regular Show joke behind the meme, gambling and chance objections, and how to weigh them fairly.
Rock paper scissors is not an Olympic sport and is not recognized by the IOC. Here is why, whether it counts as a sport at all, and how it is played competitively.
How Pepsi Japan brought WRPSA world champion Ken "Whitey" Watson to Brazil to play rock paper scissors against Keisuke Honda in 2020, and the 2019 campaign before it.
Famous Rock Paper Scissors quotes with real sources, from The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory to a 2005 art auction, plus sayings for fun and motivation.
No move is safest in Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock: each beats two and loses to two. How to exploit real opponents, pick counters, and avoid easy tells.
Sourced list of famous people seen playing Rock Paper Scissors: Jimmy Fallon and his Pie guests, Ellen, Keisuke Honda for Pepsi Japan, and Dwayne Johnson.
WRPSA world champion Ken "Whitey" Watson, plus every press-verified World RPS Society and USARPS champion from 2002 to 2009 and what they won.
Fair rock paper scissors mind games: reading habits, announcing a throw, exploiting win-stay lose-shift, and the biases that make people predictable.
Why soccer penalty kicks work like rock paper scissors: mixed-strategy equilibrium, and what Chiappori, Levitt and Groseclose and Palacios-Huerta found.
Where to play rock paper scissors online right now, free and without a download, plus what separates a good RPS site or app from a bad one and how to win there.
What happens when you play rock paper scissors against a mirror or against yourself: every round is a tie, and why. Plus better ways to practise alone.
Original WRPSA data from 947 players: rock is thrown most, scissors least, and winners switch far more often than the famous win-stay study predicts.
Roshambo is a 1930s California name for Rock Paper Scissors. The story that the French general Rochambeau played it is a myth. Here is what we actually know.
World Rock Paper Scissors Day falls on August 27 every year. Where the day came from and simple ways to mark it at home, at work or with a group.
How to think about completed-round patterns without pretending anyone can see a hidden throw.