On: How Do I Win Rock Paper Scissors Every Time

[kqr2]

There was a RPS programming competition which tested various algorithms against each other:

http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html

My favorite was Iocaine Powder. The strategy is explained in more detail here:

http://www.ofb.net/~egnor/iocaine.html

Iocaine is also a reference to a well known scene in The Princess Bride

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes?qt0482733

[joshu → kqr2]

That was a fun competition. A good friend won it the first year.