Could someone please explain what this game is about, and how it’s played? I never heard the expression until a few years ago. Where I grew up, the subject of rock, paper and scissors never came up. What’s it all about, Alfie?
Basically you play between two people. Sometimes there’s a little showy “run up” where the players shake their fists three times while saying “One, two, three, shoot”
Each person decides whether to play two fingers (scissors), an open hand (paper) or a curled fist (rock). Based on what each person played a winner is determined:
Scissors beats paper - because it cuts paper.
Paper beats rock - wraps rock.
Rock beats scissors - breaks scissors.
Often used as a method of deciding something like who goes first, or who rides shotgun, or who has to do the dishes, though you’ll often hear a cry of “Best 2 out of 3” from the loser 
You start off at the Mornington Crescent Station…
Huh.
I thought you were referencing the Simpsons episode where Lisa challenges Bart to a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. Lisa thinks to herself, “Ah, Bart, so predictable”, while Bart thinks to himself, “Good ol Rock. Nothing beats that!”
Surely you end at Mornington Crescent…?
Personally, I think rock is a victim of its own fears. Rock is claustrophobic.
You clearly are not familiar with the Rock Paper Scissors gambit…
Gary Larson did a Far Side cartoon of cavemen playing Rock Paper Scissors, and one of them was saying “Dang, tied again!”.
Of course they could have played Rock, Wood, and “Dert”, maybe.
Exactly, there has to be something that can beat Rock, or the game would have no point.
In the last incarnation of After Dark I had before they went kaput (Lord how I miss After Dark!), there was a “Rock Paper Scissors” screensaver in which the three of them faced off (with scores showing at the bottom) while traveling around the screen. The cool thing was that each one could beat each of the others:
Rock beats Paper by jumping through the middle of Paper.
Paper beats Rock by covering Rock and “crushing” it.
Rock beats Scissors by smashing Scissors.
Scissors beats Rock by “drilling” a hole in Rock (or carving it into The Thinker, heh).
Paper beats Scissors by wrapping itself around Scissors and throttling it.
Scissors beats paper by cutting Paper in half.
Good luck beating the [url"=http://chappie.stanford.edu/~perry/roshambo/"]Roshambot.
Crap
Or *would *there? :dubious:
It was Mickey on Seinfeld. Courtesy of Seinfeldscripts.com:
I haven’t thought about it recently, but when I was a kid and played rock-paper-scissors, I somehow came to the conclusion that paper just rubbed the rock into dust; you know, erosion.
Sorry friend, but according to that cite, the episode aired on February 24, 1994.
Courtesy of snpp.com. From the episode The Front, originally aired on April 15 1993.
After 10 games, I’m 5/0/5…
When my kids used to playb this, they would say, “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot.” During one particularly crucial contest, my younger son said “Rock, Paper, Scissors, GUN!” He then produced and extended index finger and spread thumb, which he lowered, made the gun sound, and said “You’re dead. I win.”
I did have to intervene then and declare him the loser. There is a fine line between “thinking out of the box” and “felony murder.”
after 26 games I’m 9/9/8
It seems to do about as well as random chace so far