Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1404.5199/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTSocial cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game — mentioned by throw0101ahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977277urn:hackerpapers:mention:1404.5199:22977277Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:10:20 GMT<p>&gt; Is RPS a game of skill? If you do a 2/3, or 3/5, etc, then maybe. Numberphile did an episode on how you&#x27;re more likely to win by following a particular strategy: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rudzYPHuewc Presumably this works best if the other person is not following the same strategy. The paper that they reference (PDF): * https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.5199v1.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1404.5199/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-ph