✂️ Rock Paper Scissors

How to play

The classic three-way stand-off against the computer. Pick rock, paper or scissors and the computer picks at the same moment: rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper and paper beats rock. There is no round limit, so the game runs until you stop or reset the score.

• Rock, paper and scissors buttons — click one to throw it. Both hands are revealed immediately.
• Reset Score — sets all three counters back to zero, clears the history strip and blanks both hands.

Scoring

Three counters run across the top: your wins, draws and the computer's wins. A win adds one to your column, a matching pick adds one to the draw column and a loss adds one to the computer's. Nothing is weighted and there is no bonus for streaks. The strip under the buttons keeps the last ten results as a tick, cross or dash, newest first, so you can see how the recent run has gone. The computer picks uniformly at random from the three options each round, with no memory of what you played before.

Tips

• The computer draws fresh at random every round, so no pattern in your own play can be read or countered. Long streaks either way are just variance.
• Expect roughly a third of rounds to be draws. Judge a session by the gap between the two win columns, not by the draw count.
• The history strip is the quickest read on how a session is going, and ten crosses in a row means bad luck rather than a mistake.

Frequently asked questions