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In the game Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) two players each choose to play either Rock, Paper, or Scissors to determine who wins. If both players choose the same thing, its a tie. Otherwise:

• Rock beats ("crushes") scissors
• Paper beats ("covers") rock
• Scissors beats ("cuts through") paper

In this sudoku puzzle, normal sudoku rules apply.

In addition, many rounds of RPS have been played between numbers in neighboring cells. The rock, paper, and scissors symbols that are shown between cells indicate which cells played and who won. (Note, not every combination of cells chose to play -- sometimes numbers were busy, scared, tired, or simply preferred to watch instead.) No ties are shown.

The numbers consistently chose the same thing every time they played, although we obviously don't know choice each number made, but I'm sure you can figure that out. (e.g. if 3 played rock, it played rock every time it played.)

Remarkably, and importantly, each number won exactly the number of games equal to itself. (e.g. 5 won five games total...)

I found it helpful to use three colored pencils to shade the boxes when solving.