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 ...

Because contemporary pop culture has so embraced this ubiquitous hand-to-hand game, TikTok user Nick Metzler showed interested users how to win consistently. Using psychology (and a bit of strategy) ...

While rock, paper, scissors is usually seen as a game of luck, a scientist has revealed what they claim is a surefire way to beat your friends. According to Dr Denise Moerel, a cognitive scientist at ...