Sotheby's reluctantly accepted this as a 50/50 game of chance, but Christie's asked the experts, Flora and Alice, 11-year-old daughters of the company's director of Impressionist and modern art, and aficionados of the game.
They explained their strategy:
1. Stone is the one that "feels" the strongest
2. Therefore a novice will expect their opponent to go for stone, and will go for paper to beat stone
3. Therefore go for scissors first
Sure enough, the novices at Sotheby's went for paper, and Christie's scissors got them an enormously lucrative cut. [thanks, Sharon]
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