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Rock Paper Scissors
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We are all familiar with the Rock, Paper, and Scissors game of our childhood and how it works. Hands
behind your back; with a quick decision on whether you produce a fist representing a rock, or a hand
waving vertically representing paper and two Churchilian fingers representing scissors.
The objective being that once the hand or finger is produced the element that it represents is stronger
than that of the opponents, i.e. Rock crushes scissors, and scissors cut up paper.
Depending upon what and how you play your backgammon game, the equivalent of Rock Paper
Scissors is the doubling cube, whereby you offer the challenge to your opponent to accept or decline
the offer to double.
Should the answer be no, the answer would be the same as if you produced a Rock against paper in
Rock Paper Scissors you would have crushed them.
If, on the other hand the answer is yes, then you have to double it out in a contest of doubling throws,
with combinations that can reach as much as 64. This is reminiscent of the Rock, Paper and Scissors
game in that the contest becomes two headed with one trying to beat the other.
Doubling is the quickest and most dangerous way to win and should be used if and when it can deliver a
winning position.
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