Science Found a New Hack for Winning Rock, Paper, Scissors

Science Found a New Hack for Winning Rock, Paper, Scissors

Science just figured out a new hack for winning Rock, Paper, Scissors.  And it’s easy to remember:  The hack is, remember to forget.  

A team in Australia had people play 15,000 rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors against a computer, and scanned their brains to see how they made decisions.

In general, they found we tend to choose rock the most . . . then paper . . . and scissors is the least-common choice. 

But the actual hack only comes into play if you TIE the first round.

They found that trying to be smart and base your next choice on what happened in the last round actually makes you LESS likely to win.

In other words, don’t worry about what each of you threw out last time.  Just try to be as random as possible.  The rub is they found that it’s really hard for our brains to ignore that data and be truly random with it. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-a-clever-trick-to-help-win-rock-paper-scissors