Chapter 8. Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • playing against a computer

  • creating graphics to serve as buttons

  • arrays of arrays for game rules

  • the font-family property

  • inherited style settings

  • audio

Introduction

This chapter combines programming techniques with HTML5 JavaScript features to implement the familiar rock-paper-scissors game. In the school yard version of this game, each player uses hand symbols to indicate one of the three possibilities: rock, paper, or scissors. The terminology is that a player throws one of the three options. The game rules are stated this way:

  • Rock crushes scissors.

  • Paper covers rock.

  • Scissors cuts paper.

So each symbol beats one other ...

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