• Skua@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I’m now curious to know where you’re from, if you’re willing to share. I’ve always known the game as rock, paper, scissors. I’m in the UK, and it seems like the rest of the Anglosphere uses the same three options but sometimes in a different order, like scissors, paper, rock or something. What’s the gesture you make for “stick”?

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        11 months ago

        I like to think it’s just the same logic as that old stick vs 1,000 US marines post. Scissors cut the stick in half? Now you have two sticks. Stick always wins.

        Anyway it’s not like paper beats rock has a whole lot of reasoning behind it

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            10 months ago

            okay sure, but that wins you the round if you picked paper and I picked rock? That’s paper beating rock. That it does this by “covering” the rock doesn’t really clear anything up

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              10 months ago

              Sigh, you beat me 😛.

              I’m guessing it’s a regional thing.

              “Paper covers rock, Rock beats scissors Scissors cut paper”

              is always how I heard it said out loud.