Rock, paper, scissors revisited
Friend, colleague, and fellow game enthusiast Mr Clicky writes to tell me of some positive results from the lab: he's succeeded in updating the ancient game of rock, paper, scissors not once, but twice.
Tell your friends about this breakthrough, and let us know how you get on.
Furthermore
For game designers, it's amazing how many games are in fact just RPS variants or extensions, which is to say non-transitive A beats B beats C beats A loops.
I was delighted to learn that there are Californian lizards (Uta Stansburiana) who play this game. Their mating strategy is effectively Rock Scissors Paper. It works like this: orange-throated males are sexual predators large enough fight off blue-throats. Blue-throats are monogamous, large enough to beat off yellow-throats who are transvestites, and nip over in disguise to mate with orange-throated females while their males are off trying to have sex with blue-throats. (O>B>Y>O, in other words)
