"One popular five-weapon expansion, claimed to have been invented by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla, adds "Spock" and "lizard" to the standard three. "Spock" is signified with the Star Trek Vulcan salute, while "lizard" is shown by forming the hand into a sock-puppet-like mouth. Spock smashes scissors and vaporizes rock; he is poisoned by lizard and disproved by paper. Lizard poisons Spock and eats paper; it is crushed by rock and decapitated by scissors."

That's very interesting. Please, tell me more.

Dude. Very awesome.

The definition of epic is written in that post...

That's very interesting. Please, tell me more.

 

What more to tell? It pretty much covered everything, right?

 

The definition of epic is written in that post...

 

^^ I got that from wikipedia. And when I went to the Rock Paper Scissors wiki page there, I was expecting it pretty short-- Not. There's many different versions of it. I like the Japanese best. ^^

The Japanese version is much more confusing though.

 

 

Jan Ken Pon

 

Usually, though not always, the game starts by both players chanting "Saisho wa g?!" (???????, "Starting with the stone!") while pumping their fists to synchronize the moves.

 

They repeat the same pumping while chanting "Jan-ken-pon!" On "pon", the players display their hand gestures and resolve them according to standard Rock-Paper-Scissors rules.

Chants

 

"Jan-ken-pon!" is the chant commonly said when playing the game in Japan. Depending on region, however, the chant can change. Sometimes, instead of "pon," players shout "hoi!" or "poi!" i.e., "Jan-ken-HOI!" or "Jan-ken-POI!" Phrases that sound nothing like "janken" are also used, for example "JikketTA!" In Kansai, it's not uncommon to hear the chant "in-jan-HOI!" Initially, when players tie, the chant is "aiko deSHO!," with players revealing their play at "sho!" But when players begin to tie continuously, the chant is often shortened to simply "-sho," rapidly changing the play each time. i.e., "aiko deSHO! -SHO! -SHO!". Play may continue even past this initial stage; a common secondary stage of the game is "Acchi Muite Hoi!". The players will chant "Acchi Muite Hoi" (Hey, Look over there!) and on "Hoi" the winner of the first stage will point either up, down, left or right, with the opponent tilting their head in one of these four directions. If the opponent tilts their head in the same direction as the finger, they lose again declaring previous stage's winner the overall winner. If not, the original winners win is cancelled and the game reverts back to "Jan-ken-pon".

 

rofl. who makes these things up?