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Yeah, I am not sure what is going on, I just played it 1000 times from rand and the results were.

500 plays - Player: 144, Computer: 179, Tie: 177

1000 plays - Player: 325, computer: 359, tie: 316

I just did the same thing,

500 plays - Player: 163, Computer: 179, Tie: 158

1000 plays - Player: 306, Computer: 365, Tie: 329

I've run it several times and the computer has won every time against random, it must have an unfair advantage.

How are you emulating the clicking?

I normally write a c program or go linked to xlib to do this sort of work, but I just used xdotool in a bash script for this.

thanks! didn't know about xdotool

This runs it randomly 1000 times (well not reaaally randomly, but it gets close), just paste it into the browser console:

const times = 1000;

function sleep(ms) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms)); }

async function run() { for (let i = 0; i < times; i++) { await sleep(10); play(Math.floor(Math.random()*3)); } }

run();

You can also do:

for(i=0; i<100; i++) { play(Math.floor(Math.random()*3)) }

Right in the JavaScript console.

Nice! Thanks, I've edited my post to use this shorter version. The sleep is needed to avoid freezing the tab.