Notes from my terminal: Rock, Paper, Scissors

November 02, 2003

Rock, Paper, Scissors

On my first visit to Korea, I was amazed by the fact that people would decide all kinds of things like who was to pay the next round of drinks by proclaiming that the problem could best be solved through "gawi bawi bo" (가위 바위 보, "scissors rock paper") and starting a game played with their hands that I knew from my childhood as "Schnick-Schnack-Schnuck" or "Knobeln". The rules are simple: Both players must flash their hands at the same time, forming either a rock (fist), a paper (a stretched out flat palm) or scissors (a fist with index and middle finger extended, like the two blades of a pair of scissors). Rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, paper beats rock. Until then I thought of this game as being unique to Germany. I could not have been much farer from the truth, as the game of rock, paper, scissors seems to be one of the most universially played on this planet.

Known as "RoShamBo" (with various different spellings) in English-speaking countries, the game is most likely of Asian origin, probabely from the Japanese "JanKenPon", but as Phil Price tells us on his page where he researched the origins of the game "judging by a scene in one of the tombs at Beni Hassan in Middle Egypt, it appears that finger-flashing games have been known in Egypt since about 2000 B.C."

Geeks may have their own reason to be fascinated by the game, as the page on the International RoShamBo Programming Competition reveals a lot of interesting information on programming your own RoShamBo programme. And if you have to go for a human-against-human competition, be sure to read this page on advanced strategies for rock, paper, scissors.

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