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Rock Paper Scissors Solitaire

38 points by klez 10mo ago

anthk 10mo ago
Ditto with Snakes and Ladders and the Goose game (juego de la oca in Spanish), with a similar gameplay. And Yahtzee.
- kruffalon 10mo ago
  Parchís? "¡Oca, oca, tira porque me/te toca!"
  - anthk 10mo ago
    Parchís is Parcheese/Ludo, the four colored, squared racing board game. Here the player can choose between one and four pieces to move once the full set it's outside the 'home'. With Oca/Snakes and Ladders and such, the outcome it's the same with 0, 1 and N players. You just throw a dice and watch the events.
    - kruffalon 10mo ago
      Ah! Yes, you're right, I think we had one board with Parchís on one side and Oca on the other so we never really named the Oca game (which we almost never played since it's more boring because it lacks player agency).
      - anthk 10mo ago
        Oca could be improved by having to win with two or three tokens and placing 'attacking' items a la Mario Kart in the board. Less randomness for the game at least. Because even a paper and pen racing game with vectors can be more fun than Oca without any special slots to fall into.
telesilla 10mo ago
I miss being so bored that you invent such games. I need to pack myself off for a holiday and leave my digital life behind for a few days, maybe where there is a piano and a nice view to paint.
tunesmith 10mo ago
Sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet that grew up knowing it as "Rock Scissors Paper". I still defend that as the best name in English. Rock needs to go first. Rock beats Scissors beats Paper. It's the most straightforward order.
- deaddodo 10mo ago
  If you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically: Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors
  - furyofantares 10mo ago
    Or any other ordering
    - deaddodo 10mo ago
      Yes, but I was specifically choosing the one that is by far the most popular one; at least in American English.
  - tunesmith 10mo ago
    Why would you want to describe it as "loses to" rather than "beats"? People want to win, not lose.
- chias 10mo ago
  I grew up calling it "Paper Scissors Rock"!
- tosh 10mo ago
  in german it’s “Schere Stein Papier”
- malkia 10mo ago
  Is there a niche "endian" humor about this :) - e.g. is this the little endian, or big endian, or "middle" endian of "Rock Paper Scissors" - excuse my really poor attempt at this.
antononcube 10mo ago
Interesting variant. I might program it for some of the «Rock-Paper-Scissors extensions» here: https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-paper-scissors-extensions/ https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-pape... Some of the extensions would need polyhedral dices: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/ https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/
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malkia 10mo ago
My grandfather, was a chess-meister, not of huge proportions, but well known in our city. Chess was almost like a diseases (he did not taught my father and his brother in the game, knowing the pain and suffering this would bring later in life)... So one thing he did when he was back home from the local chess club, is to play against himself - replaying old moves, or by the book, or something new, just heard. He would also this with other games - like bridge (or similar). He was truly a genius in his own, and I'm sure he had good time, but he understood really well that it was not good habit long term. Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to get through
kruffalon 10mo ago
This is genius! I was not expecting such an elegant way to deal with PvP in an analog action solitaire game, excellent!!
- fsckboy 10mo ago
  >This is genius! if you don't have dice, use a coin, heads beats whatever you choose, tails loses to it. then, quicker if you don't choose, heads you lose, tails you win. with the coin you don't get ties, but ties you just shoot again so it hardly disturbs the outcome of the game. bigger genius.
Unai 10mo ago
If you don't have a dice, you can mentally roll one. Think of a bunch of numbers and add them all together, then add every digit of that number, and so on until you end up with a single digit from 1 to 9. 1, 2 and 3 is rock, 4, 5 and 6 is paper and 7, 8 and 9 is scissors. For example: 23+42 (or 2+3+4+2 if that's easier for you to do, the result will be the same) = 65 → 6+5 = 11 → 1+1 = 2, rock. Great to fall asleep, given how boring the game must be. I use that dice system in bed but in a RPG game (1 = "No, and also..."; 2,3,4 = "No"; 5 = "Yes, but..."; 6,7,8 = "Yes"; 9 = "Yes, and also...").

38 points by klez 10mo ago

anthk 10mo ago

Ditto with Snakes and Ladders and the Goose game (juego de la oca in Spanish), with a similar gameplay. And Yahtzee.

kruffalon 10mo ago
Parchís? "¡Oca, oca, tira porque me/te toca!"
- anthk 10mo ago
  Parchís is Parcheese/Ludo, the four colored, squared racing board game. Here the player can choose between one and four pieces to move once the full set it's outside the 'home'. With Oca/Snakes and Ladders and such, the outcome it's the same with 0, 1 and N players. You just throw a dice and watch the events.
  - kruffalon 10mo ago
    Ah! Yes, you're right, I think we had one board with Parchís on one side and Oca on the other so we never really named the Oca game (which we almost never played since it's more boring because it lacks player agency).
    - anthk 10mo ago
      Oca could be improved by having to win with two or three tokens and placing 'attacking' items a la Mario Kart in the board. Less randomness for the game at least. Because even a paper and pen racing game with vectors can be more fun than Oca without any special slots to fall into.

telesilla 10mo ago

I miss being so bored that you invent such games. I need to pack myself off for a holiday and leave my digital life behind for a few days, maybe where there is a piano and a nice view to paint.

tunesmith 10mo ago

Sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet that grew up knowing it as "Rock Scissors Paper". I still defend that as the best name in English. Rock needs to go first. Rock beats Scissors beats Paper. It's the most straightforward order.

deaddodo 10mo ago
If you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically: Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors
- furyofantares 10mo ago
  Or any other ordering
  - deaddodo 10mo ago
    Yes, but I was specifically choosing the one that is by far the most popular one; at least in American English.
- tunesmith 10mo ago
  Why would you want to describe it as "loses to" rather than "beats"? People want to win, not lose.
chias 10mo ago
I grew up calling it "Paper Scissors Rock"!
tosh 10mo ago
in german it’s “Schere Stein Papier”
malkia 10mo ago
Is there a niche "endian" humor about this :) - e.g. is this the little endian, or big endian, or "middle" endian of "Rock Paper Scissors" - excuse my really poor attempt at this.

antononcube 10mo ago

Interesting variant. I might program it for some of the «Rock-Paper-Scissors extensions» here: https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-paper-scissors-extensions/ https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-pape... Some of the extensions would need polyhedral dices: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/ https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/

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malkia 10mo ago

My grandfather, was a chess-meister, not of huge proportions, but well known in our city. Chess was almost like a diseases (he did not taught my father and his brother in the game, knowing the pain and suffering this would bring later in life)... So one thing he did when he was back home from the local chess club, is to play against himself - replaying old moves, or by the book, or something new, just heard. He would also this with other games - like bridge (or similar). He was truly a genius in his own, and I'm sure he had good time, but he understood really well that it was not good habit long term. Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to get through

kruffalon 10mo ago

This is genius! I was not expecting such an elegant way to deal with PvP in an analog action solitaire game, excellent!!

fsckboy 10mo ago
>This is genius! if you don't have dice, use a coin, heads beats whatever you choose, tails loses to it. then, quicker if you don't choose, heads you lose, tails you win. with the coin you don't get ties, but ties you just shoot again so it hardly disturbs the outcome of the game. bigger genius.

Unai 10mo ago

If you don't have a dice, you can mentally roll one. Think of a bunch of numbers and add them all together, then add every digit of that number, and so on until you end up with a single digit from 1 to 9. 1, 2 and 3 is rock, 4, 5 and 6 is paper and 7, 8 and 9 is scissors. For example: 23+42 (or 2+3+4+2 if that's easier for you to do, the result will be the same) = 65 → 6+5 = 11 → 1+1 = 2, rock. Great to fall asleep, given how boring the game must be. I use that dice system in bed but in a RPG game (1 = "No, and also..."; 2,3,4 = "No"; 5 = "Yes, but..."; 6,7,8 = "Yes"; 9 = "Yes, and also...").