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Published online 18 October 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news991021-3
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Everyone wins in quantum games
The best way to win a game like 'paper-stone-scissors' is to use "quantum rules". Baffle your opponent by pulling out a hand that is simultaneously 'paper' and 'scissors', says Phil Ball.
Quantum mechanics got Schrödinger's cat into a sticky situation, but it can rescue you from dilemmas too. Three physicists working in Germany claim in the journal Physical Review Letters1(11 October issue) that a game that typically ends in a kind of frustrating stalemate ceases to do so if played with "quantum rules".
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