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Here is another problem from the Sherlock Holmes puzzle book by Dr. Watson (aka Tim Dedopulos).<\/p>\nHere is another problem from the Sherlock Holmes puzzle book by Dr. Watson (aka Tim Dedopulos).<\/p>\n
\u201cWiggins grinned at me. \u2018You\u2019ve not played Rock Paper Scissors before, Doctor?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Doesn\u2019t ring a bell,\u2019 I told him.<\/p>\n
\u2018Two of you randomly pick one of the three, and shout your choice simultaneously. There are hand gestures, too. If you both get the same, it\u2019s a draw. Otherwise, scissors beats paper, paper beats rock, and rock beats scissors.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018So it\u2019s a way of settling an argument,\u2019 I suggested.<\/p>\n
\u2018You were brought up wrong, Doctor,\u2019 Wiggins said gravely. \u2018Look, try it this way. I played a series of ten games with Alice earlier. I picked scissors six times, rock three times, and paper once. She picked scissors four times, rock twice, and paper four times. None of our games were drawn.\u2019 He glanced at Holmes, who nodded. \u2018So then, Doctor. What was the overall score for the series?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n See the Rock Paper Scissors Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n
![Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\nSee the Rock Paper Scissors Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n(Update 7\/29\/2021<\/strong>)\u00a0 This problem in a different guise was presented by Futility Closet<\/em><\/a> (7\/28\/2021) and attributed to Yoshinao Katagiri in Nobuyuki Yoshigahara\u2019s Puzzles 101: A Puzzlemaster\u2019s Challenge<\/em>, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is another problem from the Sherlock Holmes puzzle book by Dr. Watson (aka Tim Dedopulos). \u201cWiggins grinned at me. \u2018You\u2019ve not played Rock Paper Scissors before, Doctor?\u2019 \u2018Doesn\u2019t ring a bell,\u2019 I told him. \u2018Two of you randomly pick one of the three, and shout your choice simultaneously. There are hand gestures, too. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[174,193],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-logic","tag-tim-dedopulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rock-Paper-Scissors-Answer.jpg\"){kind=link}