Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and often profitable

• The outguessing machine
• The randomness experiment. The zenith broadcast
• How to outguess rock, paper, scissors
• How to outguess multiple-choice tests
• How to outguess the lottery
• How to outguess tennis serves
• How to outguess baseball and football
• How to outguess soccer penalty kicks
• How to outguess card games
• How to outguess passwords
• How to outguess crowd-sourced ratingsn
• How to outguess fake numbers
• How to outguess manipulated numbers
• How to outguess Ponzi schemes
• Thehot hand theory. In the zone
• How to outguess basketball bracket pools
• How to outguess office football pools
• How to outguess Oscar pools
• How to outguess big data
• How to outguess retail prices
• How to outguess home prices
• How to outguess the future
• How to outguess the stock market
• Fortune's wheel