It’s the ancient combat triangle: rock smashes scissors, scissors cut paper, paper covers rock. Countless decisions have rested on mastery of this tenuous balance.

So to prepare for those future decisions this program allows you to practice against a computer opponent. 5 computer opponents in fact. Win all 5 rounds an you can declare yourself the champion. Each of the 5 rounds the opponents act differently. Knowing how they act could give you an edge. Maybe.

If the standard “rock/paper/scissors” combination is too tame for you all you need to do is edit the rps.txt file that the game reads for it’s pictures and make your own challenges. Make sure the data file is 18 lines, each 6 line block starts with the name of the symbol, the next 5 lines are the symbol, no more than 12 characters wide. Then the next 6 lines will be the symbol that beats it.

RPS was made by James E. Ward.