As players flood back into the zany world of Miitopia, they will inevitably find themselves running short on gold. While there are plenty of ways to go about farming money in the game, one commonly held beliefs is that the Rock Paper Scissors minigame is one of the best ways to make money in the game. For lucky players, this is certainly true. Players can take a single game ticket and turn it into a massive amount of gold depending on how far into the game they are, but there's a bit of confusion surrounding the best way to go about doing this.
When Miitopia first released for the 3DS, players interacting with the Rock Paper Scissors minigame began to notice a pattern in the robot's plays. Just before the player is tasked with choosing their hand, the robot makes one of three different hand motions. Many players believe that this indicates what his next hand will be, although this still has yet to be confirmed as 100% true.
The game of Rock Paper Scissors hardly needs explaining, but there are some key things to note that make Miitopia's version different from what players are probably used to. For starters, the opponent is a computer, both in the game world and out of it. This means that it is capable of acting completely randomly. Since players can't dig into the game code, there's also no way to tell if certain hands are more likely to occur than others. Finally, after winning the first round, the robot ups the stakes with a double or nothing bet. If the player wins, they get twice as much as they bet, but if they lose, the robot keeps it all.
According to the strategy, the robot will choose one of three gestures (see the image above). If he points his finger upwards, the player should choose the weakness of whatever they won the last round with. If he instead balls his hand up into a fist, the theory posits that players should choose the same hand that they won the last round with. Finally, if the robot curls his finger, players should choose the strength of whatever they won the last round with. If the player somehow gets a tie, simply choose the same option again.
While there have been numerous tests of this theory that prove it is not 100% accurate, some players still swear by the method as a way of improving their win rates. It's possible that this is just a placebo effect and that choosing randomly would result in the same odds of winning, or it could be that this method actually taps into the way the Rock Paper Scissors game is programmed. Without reading the code there's really no way to tell.
Miitopia is available now on Switch.
