Rock Paper Scissors, This is Serious Stuff
So for some reason this weekend it hit me... where did rock paper scissors start? Why do we all know about it?
First if you didnt already know, there is a world championship (for all of those who thought they weren't ready for world championship sports.
Also there is an official magazine.
But as for history, it seems to be debated, but whatever your belief, if the Nordics or the Japaneese invented it. (BTW in Japan it is called Janken). Either way it goes back nearly 2000 years ago.
So Rock Paper Scissors, something shared by much of humanity (Don't yall feel closer now).
A great article is found at Wikipedia.
(I particularly like the fact that a court case a couple of years ago in Florida was solved by a game of rock paper scissors).
So when shall we have our own championship? Get those hands in shape and ready to throw down some rock paper scissors...
Comments
Wow. Ha. Can you imagine.."yes I'm the world champion of the rock-paper- scissors competition." Hilarious. Glad you looked it up. :)We have all learned something new.:)Thanks
Questions+Jerm(and the www)=Answers
Posted by: kristen | September 5, 2006 12:33 PM
"I understand that Scissors can beat Paper, and I get how Rock can beat Scissors, but there's no way Paper can beat Rock. Paper is supposed to magically wrap around Rock leaving it immobile? Why can’t paper do this to scissors? Never mind scissors, why can't paper do this to people? Why isn't notebook paper constantly suffocating students while they take notes in class? I'll tell you why, because paper can't beat anybody, a rock would tear that paper up in 2 seconds. When I play rock/paper/scissors, I always choose rock. Then when somebody claims to beat me with their paper I can punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, 'oh my bad, I thought paper would protect you, you jerk!'"
Posted by: Tre | September 5, 2006 01:58 PM
Yeah, I remember not being surprised by the Rock Paper Scissors championship. Everyone likes being better than everyone else in something. Rock Paper Scissors, putt putt golf, eating, even pillow fighting. That's right. Pillow fighting. Which by the way, I would totally own in. I'm the perfect pillow fighter. But that is beyond the point.
Posted by: Javann | September 5, 2006 07:19 PM
How do they even win a championship? Is there some strategy to it that I'm overlooking? I remember having to write a program in school for it. If I remember correctly I had it set up where you played against the computer, which chose ramdomly of course.....maybe I'm missing the strategy aspect of it. ????
Posted by: Becky | September 5, 2006 10:21 PM
There is total amounts of strategy to it. Okay, I'll explain.
So lets say we start off and I throw rock and you throw rock as well. Now, for the follow up move, I think that you're going to throw paper in hopes of me throwing rock again. So I counter by throwing scissors. But wait, if you're really good, you're expecting scissors, and you know if you throw paper, you'll end up getting sliced, so you choose to throw rock again. Meanwhile in my head, I'm thinking that you'll throw rock, knowing that you. . .
you know what?
I don't think there's any strategy to it.
Posted by: Javann | September 6, 2006 03:00 PM
LOL!!! Thats what i thought... maybe its kind of like poker where you have to be good at reading the other person.... So you can know what they are going to do next...So w/ that theory a psychologist should be awesome, right?.....hmmmmm, how could we test this?
Posted by: Becky | September 6, 2006 11:10 PM