North American influencer Lexi guarantees that she discovered a trick that makes her almost unbeatable in the popular challenge. Apparently, science confirms the validity of his technique.
The popular content creator Lexi shared a strategy that he says almost always works. “This is how you always win in rock, paper or scissors. According to science”, he begins by saying.
Lexi explains that a group of researchers in China studied the game and discovered a simple pattern. “They wrote an article about the psychology of Rock, Paper or Scissors and found a very simple strategy, but it almost always works,” he says.
But there is an important condition, Lexi notes: the strategy only works if you are playing best of three. “The first round doesn’t matter much.”
Still, there is a small tip for the first playthrough. According to Lexi, “the men are more likely to choose stone firstand women tend to choose scissors. But it really doesn’t make any difference to win the first round.”
So how does the trick work?
“If we win the first round,” explains Lexi, “we use what would have beaten your initial move. For example, if we won with stone, we threw paper in the next round. Our opponent is much more likely to choose what we used to win in the first round”, he explains.
But if we lose the first round, then the logic is reversed. “Let’s use what the our adversary used to defeat us“, says Lexi. So, if we beat our scissors with rocks, we play rocks in the second round — and we repeat the same in the last round.”
According to Lexi, this is how you almost always win Rock, Paper, Scissors.
And does this have a scientific basis?
Apparently, yes. As Lexi explained in her video, in 2014 a team of Chinese researchers dedicated themselves to studying the subject, and carried out a study with 360 students to analyze the psychology of Rock, Paper or Scissors players.
As reported at the time, the group was divided into sets of six participants, who played 300 rounds. Each victory yielded a small monetary prize.
While the students played, the researchers watched how their choices changed from round to rounda, especially after victories and defeats, and identified a pattern.
When someone won a round, they tended to repeat the same gesture in the next round. When I lost, I changed often. But not randomly: normally chose the gesture that would defeat the one who had defeated him.
The strategy seems to effectively allow you to almost always win at Rock, Paper or Scissors, as long as, as Lexi says, you play more than once. And, of course, as long as your opponent haven’t read this article either…
