When you search this online Rock-Paper-Scissors comes up more often than others but some others are still out there. Although, on the Wikipedia entry for this it's titled Rock-Paper-Scissors so I'm inclined to go with that one.
One word that came up was Roshambo as an American English alternative to Rock-Paper-Scissors and said as 'Ro-Sham-Bo' and uses the same rock, scissors, paper hand gestures.
One variation on the game came from China, which is reported being played around 200 A.D, where you use the thumb as 'frog', the small finger (pinkie) as 'snail' and the long finger (index/pointer) as 'snake'. In this version winning is as follows:
Frog beats Snail
Snake beats Frog
Snail beats Snake
In the popular U.S. television series The Big Bang Theory they come up with Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock, Watch:
In another not so popular animation series on the Cartoon Network, Regular Show, the characters are in a heated Rock-Paper-Scissors battle and the character of Pops refers to the game Quartz-Parchment-Shears. Watch:
Quartz is a type of rock, Parchment is an old English word for paper and Shears is another word for scissors but are usually larger and used to cut bushes or hedges.
How do you play Rock Paper Scissors in your country? What order do you go in? Leave your answer in the comments or shoot us an email.
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