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Rock paper scissors (also known by several other names and word orders, see § Names) is an intransitive hand game, usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These shapes are "rock" (a closed fist), "paper" (a flat hand), and "scissors" (a fist with the index ...
Muk-jji-ppa. Muk-jji-ppa is a variant of the two-player game rock paper scissors. It originated in South Korea . Each person starts with a regular rock paper scissors game. The current winner has to say their next hand and change their hand to the corresponding one. [clarification needed] This is usually done by shouting.
Sansukumi-ken. Sansukumi-ken (三すくみ拳) is a category of East Asian hand games played by using three hand gestures. Ken games went into a period of decline in Japan after World War II. One of the few surviving sansukumi-ken games is jan-ken, which was brought to the West in the 20th century as rock paper scissors .
A postcard of boys playing Morra. Morra is a hand game that dates back thousands of years to ancient Roman and Greek times. Each player simultaneously reveals their hand, extending any number of fingers, and calls out a number. Any player who successfully guesses the total number of fingers revealed by all players combined scores a point.
Tic-tac-toe. Tic-tac-toe ( American English ), noughts and crosses ( Commonwealth English ), or Xs and Os ( Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal ...
Simultaneous game. Rock–paper–scissors is an example of a simultaneous game. In game theory, a simultaneous game or static game[ 1] is a game where each player chooses their action without knowledge of the actions chosen by other players. [ 2] Simultaneous games contrast with sequential games, which are played by the players taking turns ...
Yakyūken. Yakyūken (野球拳, lit. "baseball fist") is a Japanese game based on rock–paper–scissors. Three players compete. The host cries out "Play ball". The contestants dance to music played on the shamisen and taiko. The host chants "Runner ni nattara essassa." ("Hope the batter gets to run").
Alternatively, if the play resulted in a failure the agent switches to another action. A large-scale empirical study of players of the game rock, paper, scissors shows that a variation of this strategy is adopted by real-world players of the game, instead of the Nash equilibrium strategy of choosing entirely at random between the three options.