Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) is a better known game than Matching Pennies.

Rock, paper, scissors championships are regularly held among humans - and several computer tournaments have been held.

However, matching pennies seems like a simpler and more fundamental game. There are only two possible moves and no draws.

Binary is closer to the native language of computers than ternary is.

I think this means that Matching Pennies is a better game for studying sequence prediction with - and it is why it has been selected here - rather than Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Human Rock-paper-scissors tournaments


2006 USARPS Title Match

Human Rock-paper-scissors doccumentary


Rock-paper-scissors documentary

Rock-Paper-Scissors - links

Rock-paper-scissors

Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament

RPS contest

RoShamBo Programming Competition

The First International RoShamBo Programming Competition
The Second International RoShamBo Programming Competition
The Second International RoShamBo Programming Competition
Results part 2
Results part 2
The First International RoShamBo Programming Competition - report
Safe Strategies for Agent Modelling in Games - RSP academic paper by Peter McCracken and Michael Bowling
The RoShamBo Challenge Rides Again
Extrarius's RoShamBo Programming Competition

RoShamBo Programming Competition - Source code

Iocaine Powder - Egnor - with source code
MegaHal source code
RoShamBo Tournament Sample Program - Darse Billings
First RoShamBo Tournament Test Suite - Darse Billings
Greenberg
Roshambo
Rosh2
Egnor
PredictorArrayBot
A dynamic ACT-R model of simple games

Book

The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide - Douglas Walker, Graham Walker

Movie

Rock Paper Scissors - Trailer
Rock Paper Scissors - film site - Can Purity beat Commerce?

Video

2006 USARPS Title Match
Rock Paper Scissors World Champion 2006
Rock Paper Scissors - Game Theory 101: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Human tournaments

U.S.A. R.P.S.

Play online - against machines

Rock Paper Scissors - at the New York Times
RoShamBo and Data Compression - play online against computer using HTML
Play R. P. S. - play online
Play R. P. S. - addictinggames, Flash
Play R. P. S. - freeonlinegames, Flash
Rock-Paper-Scissors - bigfishgames, Flash
The WWW Roshambot - now offline

Play online - against humans!

R.P.S. Super Challenge
R.P.S. game

Misc

Index to the Tripartite Mystery of Roshambo
Roshambo FAQ
Practical Competitive Prediction
Online Prediction
An Adaptive 'Rock, Scissors and Paper' Player Based on a Tapped Delay Neural Network Lars Niklasson, Henrik Engström and Ulf Johansson
RSP tournament on Slashdot


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