500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

It could be, if you can react to the other persons movement fast enough but appear to not have cheated. Also repeat RPS is definitely a game of skill for humans since humans don't do random, so if you can guess what the other person's bias is you have an advantage.

Re: 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

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Post by throw0101a » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 11:10 AM UTC

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #2

Is RPS a game of skill?

> Is RPS a game of skill?

If you do a 2/3, or 3/5, etc, then maybe. Numberphile did an episode on how you're more likely to win by following a particular strategy:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rudzYPHuewc

Presumably this works best if the other person is not following the same strategy. The paper that they reference (PDF):

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.5199v1.pdf

Re: 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

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Post by codegladiator » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 11:14 AM UTC

> In the 2017 judgment, Superior Court Justice Chantal Chatelain found that rock paper scissors is not simply a game of luck.

> the sense of observation or the putting in place of a strategic sequence

The court can ask him to defeat 10 other people in that game consistently to prove that ? But then he could argue the others were also skilled ?

Re: 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

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Post by angel_j » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 11:23 AM UTC

In the U.S. you'd be choked by police and jailed for racketeering.

Re: 500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 11:36 AM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #6

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #2

Is RPS a game of skill?

It could be, if you can react to the other persons movement fast enough but appear to not have cheated. Also repeat RPS is definitely a game of skill for humans since humans don't do random, so if you can guess what the other person's bias is you have an advantage.

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