Solution with some explanation of game theory concepts, by the article author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

double ugh, I meant your optimal strategy plays rock less than 50% of the time. sorry. I didn't realize that the "less than" symbol wasn't allowed.

ugh, I meant your optimal strategy plays rock 50% of the time. sorry.

I'll give a few other hints. Your optimal strategy never plays scissors. Your optimal strategy plays rock 50% of the time. Your optimal strategy does profit on average.

There are a fair number good ideas here that are getting close to the correct solution here, but there is also a lot of stuff that is pretty far off so I'll be posting a video solution to my youtube channel for this Monday. If your interested in the solution you can subscribe to my youtube channel and you'll see it when I post it on Monday :) https://www.youtube.com/channe...