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Results of a competition for a game console.
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1620 Spruce SEGA RoShamBo Tournament  Genesis together at the beginning of the year, how do you decide who gets to keep it when they all graduate? Simple, RoShamBo for it! The Rules: All players will compete in a round-robin RoShamBo tournament. A player is considered...
http://www.sniff.org/sega.html

Online discussion of the Roshambo programming competition.
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/06/19/0037233.shtml

The Roshambo Challenge Rides Again, Mind Sports Organization article.
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MindZine Second International Roshambo Programming Contest  The simplest mind sport in the world is rock-paper-scissors. It's known by different names all around the world, most famously Roshambo phonetic French for rock-paper-scissors didn't you know Muk-Chee-Bah in Korea and jun ken pon in Japan, but the game...
http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/miscellany/roshambo.html

Ivars Peterson's MathLand describes the game parallel in the mating ritual of the California side blotched lizard.
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Ivars Peterson's MathLand  In the playground version of the game, each of two players holds a hand behind his back. On the count of three (or by chanting some ritual phrase both players bring their hidden hands forward in one of three configurations....
http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_4_15.html

Phil Price does a bit of research on the game's origins.
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Rochambeau  Although everyone knows it and it's always seen some use by people trying to decide which movie to see, restaurant to go to, etc it's definitely enjoyed a kind of revival in recent years. First (from my perspective) it became...
http://www.creekcats.com/pnprice/rocham.html

Short PCWorld article on email and online versions.
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PCWorld.com Kids Game Goes E-Mail  Kill time online by playing this digital version of Rock, Paper, Scissors.James A. Martin, special to PC WorldWednesday, June 07, 2000There's a new entry in the Biggest Waste of Time Online Sweepstakes, and it could soon find its way into...
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,17075,00.asp

Details strategy and statistics for the game of RPS, including an original match format.
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Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide  Click the logo above if you'd like to play a cool game of RPS right now!) What is RPS? It's the game of Rock Paper Scissors (sometimes called Jan Ken Pon a game with which we are all likely very...
http://www.chessandpoker.com/rps...ock_paper_scissors_strategy.html

Play by email with your chosen opponent.
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Roshambo Rampage The Brunching Shuttlecocks  Paper have suffered from the debilitating limitation of having to be in the same room with their opponent. With our completely unpatented Send-O-Mail technology, though, such tragedies are a thing of the very recent past. It's pretty darn simple. Just...
http://www.brunching.com/psr.html