# Rock, paper, or scissors?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 17, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045 "2011-08-17T16:30:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/21 "2011-08-18T16:07:40Z")
False premise. If I’m playing RPS with someone, I can take it as a given that I know that person already.
Bear-hunter-ninja is more interesting, anyway.
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### Author:  [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/22 "2011-08-18T16:23:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> _Bear-hunter-ninja…_ is more interesting, anyway.
😕
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### Author:  [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/23 "2011-08-18T17:00:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> Bear-hunter-ninja is more interesting, anyway.
I guess bear-eats-ninja, hunter-traps-bear, ninja-kills-hunter?
I don’t thing my mime skills are up to that, could see it causing a lot of arguments.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/24 "2011-08-18T17:09:37Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#):
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> But if your opponent is even smarter than that, he’ll go with paper so you should go with scissors.
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> But if he’s even smarter than that, he’ll go with scissors so you should go with rock.
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> But if he’s even smarter than that…
“Truly, you have a dizzying intellect…”
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### Author:  [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/25 "2011-08-18T17:18:33Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#):
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> “Truly, you have a dizzying intellect…”
Wait 'till I get going!
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### Author:  [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/26 "2011-08-18T18:17:28Z")
eh, you’re just stalling for time.
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### Author:  [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/27 "2011-08-18T18:30:12Z")
I do try to trick them into revealing something,
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/28 "2011-08-19T23:10:05Z")
“Scissors cut everything, right?”
“Not rock, sir.”
“They’re _very sharp_ scissors…”
I’ll start with scissors anyway.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/29 "2011-08-20T02:07:15Z")
If this poll has any validity, it appears that the best opening move is scissors…
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/30 "2011-08-20T02:24:47Z")
Cool, I voted scissors. Looks like I picked wisely.
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### Author:  [@JoThrive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoThrive)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/31 "2011-08-20T03:33:53Z")
It’s quite obvious that I never fully understood the deep and inscrutable hidden meanings of this particular game.
I’ll give it a lot more thought, and read all the postings on this thread over and over, before I ever dare to play it again.
I voted for Rock, and now I am so ashamed. ☹
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/32 "2011-08-20T03:50:39Z")
Can you smell what the Rock has cookin?
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### Author:  [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-paper-or-scissors/593045/33 "2011-08-20T04:13:12Z")
The starting fist is the same as rock. If you’re fast enough, you can cheat, and instantly change to either one of the other two. Ergo, the truly wise grifter always has rock as his default choice! 🆒
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