# Think you're good at Rock Paper Scissors?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [November 22, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371 "2014-11-22T23:42:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371/21 "2014-11-28T00:36:37Z")
I got 14-16-8 before I quit on expert.
I accomplished this by thinking of what I might want to throw, deciding that the computer would anticipate this and try to beat it. Factoring in a few levels of reverse-reverse-reverse psychology, and then picking the choice of the three that I thought of picking the least.
But really, I think even on expert mode, it largely comes down to luck.
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371/22 "2014-11-28T00:43:20Z")
5-2-2 on Veteran, I is good.
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371/23 "2014-11-28T00:49:42Z")
Missed edit window, I never saw what the computer was thinking and if I had a strategy It was unknown to me.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371/24 "2014-11-30T21:31:45Z")
9-3-8 vs. veteran. Dude’s tough!
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### Author:  [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2014, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371/25 "2014-12-01T06:22:43Z")
6-4-0 veteran. Mostly luck I think.
Looking at the scores above I wonder if there is a selection bias where posters who are ahead are more likely to post their scores.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2014, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371/26 "2014-12-01T07:08:17Z")
> [@Lantern](#):
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> Looking at the scores above I wonder if there is a selection bias where posters who are ahead are more likely to post their scores.
Clearly. I totally spaced that rule when I posted. Ah well.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/think-youre-good-at-rock-paper-scissors/705371/27 "2014-12-01T07:51:53Z")
I’d like it a lot better if you could see what the computer was thinking after you threw.
I did notice that repeating yourself to avoid fake randomness does not work on the full bot. Especially repeating yourself even after you lost. Those would be go-to strategies in the real game. I also note veteran mode doesn’t assume you will throw rock (and thus throw paper), as I would assume. That is the most common. But it seems to throw its first move randomly.
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