Name that Game

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:42 am

Is it rock-paper-scissors or rock-scissors-paper?

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:06 pm

Both are okay for me.

mrmooky · Post by **mrmooky** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:37 pm

Rock, scissors, paper where I come from.

I have also heard paper, scissors, rock.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:58 pm

Paper-scissor-stone.

TheScamp · Post by **TheScamp** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:17 pm

Rock paper scissors.

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:24 pm

*echo*

JohnnyRico · Post by **JohnnyRico** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:36 pm

TheScamp wrote:Rock paper scissors.

agreed

3278 · Post by **3278** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:50 pm

Rock, paper, scissors here, too.

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:15 pm

Ditto

Szechuan · Post by **Szechuan** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:16 pm

Here it's rock, paper, sucker-punch your friend to get shotgun.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:48 pm

Rock, paper, scissors unless its with good friends who have taken to calling it Janken-pon

And Google has the oddest things

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:30 pm

Rock-Paper-Scissors.

BloodHound · Post by **BloodHound** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:10 pm

yeah, same here.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:23 pm

Likewise Rock, Paper, Scissors over here.

crone · Post by **crone** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:55 pm

We say Scissors, Paper, Rock.

WillyGilligan · Post by **WillyGilligan** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:58 pm

In my house we call it "Who's changing that diaper?"

Moonwolf · Post by **Moonwolf** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:55 am

Rock paper scissors here as well.

Kitt · Post by **Kitt** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:05 am

Rock Paper Scissors baby.

Of course, we also call it "Shake ya for it" when nobody's within earshot.

TLM · Post by **TLM** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:17 pm

Rock, scissors, paper, as far as I can recall.

Nexusvoid · Post by **Nexusvoid** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:05 am

Rock, paper, scissors here, too.

BloodHound · Post by **BloodHound** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:07 am

can we get an official tally on those?

11 for RPS
1 for SPR
1 for PS Stone
2 for RSP
3 for "other"

as far as i can tell

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:37 pm

Ahh perhaps I should explain why I wondered. I always thought the name of the game was RPS, but then I have been reading a couple of books on Game Theory (such as 'A Gentle Introduction to Game Theory') lately and RPS is a common example in the first couple of chapters but the author (which is american - Saul Stahl) insists on calling the game RSP which when I make my own calculations and compare them to his it usually throws it off a bit, by changing the collumns for S and P.

If you have RPS you have the loosing streak, rock loses to paper, paper to scissors and scissors to rock. But if you have RSP you have to win streak, rock smashes scsissors, they cut paper and paper wraps around the rock. So I guess from that standpoint one isn't more "correct" then the other. It is just that I learned the name of the game is RPS and wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one that thought so.

If one wants to go further the name of the game in swedish is sten - sax - påse (which translates to rock - scissors - bag), changing the paper to a bag instead. So in direct translation one would think I would be much more comfortable with his version (RSP) but I'm not.

Anyway that was the reason. Thanks for your participation.