> The first game I played, my strategy was to pick scissors every time. The computer's strategy was to
> pick rock about eighty per-cent of the time. I lost miserably. Next, I picked paper the whole time
> (just in case), and the computer picked scissors more often than anything else. Then I just clicked
> on random buttons for the next couple of games, and the computer still beat me very soundly.

Try this one: pick one at random in the first round, but thereafter pick whatever your opponent picked last time.
That's what I did.

Paul