Scissors is the ‘psychological winner’ out of rock and paper in playground game, scientists say
Most of us know that stone blunts scissors, scissors cut paper and paper covers stone.
What is less well-known, however, is how to win the popular playground game.
Now stalwart players have come up with a strategy: Start with scissors.
Research shows that stone is the most popular of the three possible moves in the game of quickfire hand gestures.
In 2004, a group of students created a short documentary on the World Rock PAper Scissors Championships and the World RPS Society..
If your opponent expects you to pick stone, they will choose paper to outwit you.
Therefore, by going with scissors, you will win, because scissors beat paper.
- Source: Daily Mail, Dec. 19, 2007
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