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There's a cool NYTimes article about how a Tokyo company made the decision on which auction company, Christie's or Sotheby, to give its $20 million dollar art collection to for auction by having the two companies play rock-scissors-paper. Sotheby's decided that "this meant random chance" and so just went in unprepared, but Christie's asked around and got advice from one of the employee's 11-year-old twins that scissors was always the best play with new players. And, indeed...

Strategy always pays. Sometimes very large sums.