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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.
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 ...
The terms "transitive game" or "intransitive game" are not used in game theory, however. A prototypical example of an intransitive game is the game rock, paper, scissors. In probabilistic games like Penney's game, the violation of transitivity results in a more subtle way, and is often presented as a probability paradox.
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.
Mortal Kombat is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992. The original Mortal Kombat arcade game spawned a franchise consisting of action-adventure games, a comic book series, a card game, films, an animated TV series, and a live-action tour.
An evolutionary game with no ESS is "rock-scissors-paper", as found in species such as the side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana). An unbeatable strategy: the ESS is only an uninvadeable strategy. Female funnel web spiders (Agelenopsis aperta) contest with one another for the possession of their desert spider webs using the assessor strategy.
Sequential game: A game is sequential if one player performs their actions after another player; otherwise, the game is a simultaneous move game. Perfect information: A game has perfect information if it is a sequential game and every player knows the strategies chosen by the players who preceded them. Constant sum: A game is a constant sum ...