Robin alerted us to this trend some time ago, but here's a NYTimes article on tournament play. The writer, having read the strategy books, at the beginning of her first tournament play, stared deep into the eyes of her opponent, and uttered in a flat voice: "I'm going to throw rock."
So, I invented a new game, this one for three players, called "Toss". Three people get together, each toss a fair coin (heads or tails). The winner is the one different from the other two. Unlike the old-world "rock, paper, scissors" game, where chances of a "push" (both throwing the same move) are 1/3, the chances of push in "Toss" are only 1/4, and with three players scrambling on the field, instead of the chess-match excitement of two players, the game moves a lot faster. It's the soccer to RPS's lazy baseball. RPS purists will sneer, "coin tossing is random, whereas there's real strategy in RPS". But at least that offers a new way of separating out those with a tenuous understanding of causality than the tired, old, "So, voting Republican in the next election?"
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