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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 nee
by tunesmith 11mo 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 11mo agoIf you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically: Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors
- furyofantares 11mo agoOr any other ordering
- deaddodo 11mo agoYes, but I was specifically choosing the one that is by far the most popular one; at least in American English.
- tunesmith 10mo agoWhy would you want to describe it as "loses to" rather than "beats"? People want to win, not lose.
- chias 11mo agoI grew up calling it "Paper Scissors Rock"!
- tosh 11mo agoin german it’s “Schere Stein Papier”
- malkia 11mo agoIs 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.
- nkrisc 11mo agoThat rings a bell, as in I think I had some classmates as a kid who called it that, and I remember thinking they were weird. I'd guess it was maybe 1:3 in favor of RPS over RSP.