This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This is an excerpt from veteran game designer Greg Costikyan’s book “Uncertainty in Games.” Unless you have lived in a Skinner box from an early ...

A game designer has revealed his strategy for triumphing over an opponent in a game of rock, paper, scissors. New Yorker Nick Metzler, or @nickmetzler1 on TikTok, recently took to the popular social ...

It's a game that's used to settle debates around the world. But when it comes to 'rock, paper, scissors', what is the best way to win? You might think that the playground game is down to luck. However ...

While rock, paper, scissors is usually seen as a game of luck, a scientist has revealed what they claim is a surefire way to beat your friends. According to Dr Denise Moerel, a cognitive scientist at ...

In a nutshell: Computers have been beating humans at games for a long while. OpenAI got its start with bots that could beat professional Starcraft players. Now, one engineer has built an unbeatable ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

How an ancient hand game traveled from east to west and became an unbiased way to decide everything. Plus: Can you actually hack a match? Think back to the last time you and a friend had to settle ...