2007-01-17 02:17:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
The odds are pretty much even unless you can read your opponent. I win much more often with rock paper scissors if I am in the same room with my opponent.
I disagree with the idea that rock paper scissors is 33% chance. A tie does not count as a win or loss. It is therefore not considered in the odds of winning or loosing.
2007-01-17 02:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by firefly 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Coin toss is 50% probability of winning (if everything is fair and there is no trickery involved)
Rock, Paper, Scissors done blindly, you still have a 50% chance of winning (since there are only two possibilities, one winning, one losing - I'm not counting tie games where people throw the same sign as there is no winner or loser). However, if you understand the psyche of the person you are playing against - and their level of trying to guess what you would do and modify their throw based on that - and then you modify your throw based on that... the probability will either go way up (if you're good) or way down (if you're not).
Ultimately, a fair coin toss is easiest, but Rock, Paper, Scissors is a bit more fun - but either have the same probability of a blind win.
2007-01-17 02:24:09 · answer #2 · answered by Sidewinder 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have a better chance of winning the coin toss as the odds are 50/50. Rock paper scissors more factors and thus a lower percentage of success.
2007-01-17 02:26:03 · answer #3 · answered by Yeldawk 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
With the coin, u only have 2 out comes, but the rock, paper, scissors, u have 2 chances to come out on top.
2007-01-17 02:23:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
several people are saying that if I play rock,paper,scissors I only have a 1/3 chance of winning.If that is the case,that means that the other person must have a 66 2/3 chance of winning.Does anyone really believe this?.I must remind myself that the next time I'm in a game of RPS that I want to be "the other person"
2007-01-17 09:07:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meh, my brain knows how (Paper covers rock, Rock breaks scissors, Scissors cut paper), but my hands were never any good at it. Really, something about having to throw out the hand gestures too just threw me off....I guess I'm clumsy, un-coordinated that way. ^_^ Or....maybe it was that I didn't do it a lot until a buddy got me started on Live Action Role Playing games (Mind's Eye Theater, which uses Rock-Paper-Scissors as a semi-random element). Problem with that one was, there were people there who had been *doing* this for years, and basically with them the R-P-S wasn't random, they knew every mind-game and dirty trick you could pull on the challenges. O_O Never mind that they *also* had the uber characters too, and didn't *need* it.... But I digress. Point is I've been owned so many times on Rock-Paper-Scissors that I don't even like it anymore. I won't even play because I choke too much and it's *not* fun to always lose. -_- In short: I wish I *were* that guy who had never heard of it. Thanks for your time. ^_^
2016-05-23 23:57:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Provided that all possibilities have the same probability of showing up, you have a 50% on a coin toss (the best) and 33% in RPS (3 out of nine possible outcomes in RPS will net a win).
2007-01-17 02:29:24 · answer #7 · answered by Lew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coin toss. In the coin toss, you have a 50% chance. In rock, paper, scissors, you have a 33.33% chance.
2007-01-17 02:25:49 · answer #8 · answered by I have 32 characters 2 work with 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Coin toss because its a 1 in 2 odds rock paper scissors is one in three the lottery in Fla is about 1 in 250,000,000.00
2007-01-17 02:21:45 · answer #9 · answered by delmonticoman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
With a coin toss you have a 50% chance of winning.
In R/P/S:
Rock > Scissors
Paper > Rock
Scissors > Paper
Roughly said...you only have a 1 in 3 or 33.3% chance of winning.
Either way, it all depends on luck.
2007-01-17 02:21:53 · answer #10 · answered by Dead Poet 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋