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Ashley175 августа 2018Traditional rock-paper-scissors has three viable strategies. But there is also a version of the game called rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock (my favorite outcome is “paper disproves Spock”). That version has five strategies, and all of them are viable because each has an equal chance of winning. And we can easily add more and more symbols to this game, up to an arbitrarily large number of viable strategies. But are we improving the game’s balance? Of course not. The game is no deeper than before. It’s just more complex. Adding more viable strategies didn’t make the game better.
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