Think you're good at Rock Paper Scissors?

Try the NYT’s RPS Computer.

7-3-5 (of course I used Excel to generate random numbers for me :slight_smile:

7-11-4… on the novice setting. Kind of scared to play the veteran sim.

1-5-5 on veteran. That was pretty impressive.

8-8-13 on Veteran. I thought I had a strategy going (4 wins in a row - with ties, no losses), but got a phone call in the middle and lost my train of thought.

9-6-5 vs the veteran! Take that, HAL 9000!

After 70 rounds on Veteran: 24-25-21

4-7-9 on veteran

8-3-4 on veteran, but it was getting better.

9-6-5, on veteran mode.

3-4-2 on veteran. Definitely better at it than my husband.

Did it again on Veteran, and after 40 rounds I’m at: 20-11-9

Kept going through 70 rounds: 29-25-16

I just did 75 rounds on Veteran with no thought to what I was gonna throw: 25-25-25

9-8-4 on veteran.

2-2-1 on Veteran.

This is my ‘Vegas Casino’ strategy:

  • don’t play too much
  • quit while you’re ahead :slight_smile:

I went 50 rounds and got 22-14-14. Quite pleased.

On the veteran setting I got 5-5-5 and called it quits while I was even

My strategy of “getting the computer to tell me what it’s thinking” seems unbeatable :slight_smile:

After 10 plays I was 2-2 with 6 ties. So 60% of the time I figured out what the computer thought I was going to throw, and threw what would beat that, but I couldn’t figure out what would beat what the computer thought would beat what I would throw.

ETA: On the other hand it means the computer guessed wrong 80% of the time.

10-20-10 on expert. I won the last two throws to get back to .500, so I stopped!