This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This is an excerpt from veteran game designer Greg Costikyan’s book “Uncertainty in Games.” Unless you have lived in a Skinner box from an early ...

Turns out that all you rock-paper-scissors champions who chalk it up to skill over luck may be on to something. Because according to science, there might actually be a winning strategy to this ...

In the game Rock, Paper, Scissors, two opponents randomly toss out hand gestures, and each one wins, loses or draws with equal probability. It's supposed to be a game of pure luck, not skill — and ...