Three pumps, then go.
in singapore it’s scissors paper stone. everyone i know does it on ‘stone’.
i don’t understand the confusion. if you’re going to do something on the count of 3 you do it on 3. why would people count to four or ‘go’? (or worse, get the timing wrong on a nonverbal ‘4’)
As a veteran of many Vampire, Changling and Werewolf LARPs, I gotta disagree.
Ours was always one, two, three, sign.
On “The Fairly Oddparents” this morning, they had 2 games of RPS. BOTH times they pumped 3 times and shot, so the correct answer must be four. And as Fern Forest said, TV can’t be wrong.
One, Two, Go
Rock, Paper, Scissors
BTW, you guys who use dynamite must be some kind of radical splinter group. :scary:
Quite obviously, it’s 1…2…and GO on 3.
As others have stated so eloquently, the three pumps of the fist give the game so much symmetry.
Someone famous, important, and knowledgable about such things once said that “Reauchambeaux is a waltz.”
A waltz goes in counts of threes. The whole 1…2…3…GO apostates believe in making the whole thing a four-count march. Quite uncivilized, no?
“After the tiger hollers and you let him go”
Well, it wasn’t a tiger when I learned it. Back on topic: one, two, THREE. Of course.
- PW
I think I have the definitive work on this issue.
Yep, on the Sega game Alex the Kid it was two pumps. Are you suggesting that Sega could have possibly got their painstaking research into the issue wrong?
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot! Three pumps, no question. I agree, two pumping is unquestionably morally bankrupt.
Palewriter, I’m just about darned sure that you can just keep that particular data point to yourself.
It’s a word, but so is interuterine. That doesn’t mean that you use them in a chant.
(Points to anyone who gets that one.)
It was always Ro Sham BO! and you throw on the BO!
Just like Gawi Bawi Bo, the ancient Oriental tradition, and Jan ken pon, the other ancient Oriental tradition. And Rochambeau has to be an ancient French tradition, so it’s universal, see?
Anyway, the name of the game is Scissors Paper Rock, do you guys realize you all have it backwards. Just pronounce it, you will hear the emphasis is on the Rock, and that’s another proof that it’s two pumps and Go.
Y’all drink too much.
Lushes.
and in chinese it’s shi2tou2 jian3dao1 BU4! (pardon my pinyin) or literally stone scissors cloth. notice how they’re switch around so that the single syllable word is on 3? in what order is gawi bawi bo, jan ken pon or rochambeau?
scissors paper STONE!
Three pumps. Kind of like a holy trinity.
One, Two, Go.
What is meant by this page having a Google rank of two? I entered “rock paper scissors” into Google, and I don’t see it.
There’s important decisions on the line. Think of all the wasted time accumulated throughout the ages by those who think it’s 1-2-3-throw.
Clearly 1-2-throw gets everyone moving on to what’s really important like who’s buying the next round or who gets sloppy seconds.
Heck, I think we could even shorten it more in the interest of saving time. In the immortal words of Andrew Dice Clay…
** “One stroke, DONE!”**
Of course the Diceman wasn’t talking about Rock-Paper-Scissors but that’s not important here.
Well we’ll have to agree to disagree… in my group it’s been 1, 2, go for as long as I’ve played. I don’t remember any time before that because before I started playing Vampire I hadn’t played RPS in years. In fact I seem to recall as we prefered Bubble gum Bubble gum as we usually had more than 2 people.
Oh, this is great. My GF and I argued about this a while back - she was a 2-pumper, I was a 3-pumper. Since I’m a whiny little brat, we agreed on 3 pumps, then go.
I’m loving the double-entendres.
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Standup Karmic, I’ve had many conversations exactly like the OP. We actually solve many (completely meaningless) disputes with either RPS, or what we call “the coin gods.”
Me: You feel like going out?
Her: I could go either way. You?
Me: I’m kinda sleepy, but I kinda wanna go out too.
Her: Coin gods!
Then we flip a coin to see what we’re going to do. The will of the coin gods cannot be disputed. Ever.
Two pumps , GO!
All you three-pumpers are just useless paper pushing bureacrats, waisting valuable time and obstructing the path of us rising, dynamic, progressive two-pumpers.
By the way, I never heard of the Dynamite version. Sounds very interesting.
Actually , I remember an excercise in game-theory which covered the same basic principle. It went something like this:
You have to defend 3 cities A, B and C, from a missile attack.
Your enemy has 10 missiles.
You can only choose to defend 1 city at a time, (per missile attack).
Each successfull attack costs you the following:
City A , 1 million dollars in losses
City B, 2 million dollars in losses
City C, 3 million dollars in losses
what pattern of defense do you choose ?