# Anyone ever heard of or played a game called "I pass the scissors?"

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**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-heard-of-or-played-a-game-called-i-pass-the-scissors/816875 "2018-06-27T22:24:27Z")\
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ETA2: (Sorry for the three posts in a row). Ah, yes, there’s also the [Snaps is the name of the game](http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/site/camp-activity/snaps.html) chant to it I learned later, but I don’t think we incorporated that part of the game into ours. Come to think of it, though, I believe we did, but were never taught the meaning of the variations, or simply never used any of the variations.

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I took me 4 rolls to figure out the dice game Planets Around The Sun, but it only took my friend Angelo 3. Most got it within 10 rolls. I think we had 2 that had to have it explained; they were never going to get it. This was in my 11th grade Physics class.

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**Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-heard-of-or-played-a-game-called-i-pass-the-scissors/816875/23 "2018-06-30T18:38:36Z")

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> [@carrps](#):
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> … He was an engineer, so I’d have thought he’d have a better than average possibility of solving it.

At least some engineers, when faced with a problem to solve, tend to discount whimsical or arbitrary possibilities - unless they’re specifically told to look for those.

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