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tunesmithtoday at 7:08 PM3 repliesview on HN

Sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet that grew up knowing it as "Rock Scissors Paper".

I still defend that as the best name in English. Rock needs to go first. Rock beats Scissors beats Paper. It's the most straightforward order.


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deaddodotoday at 7:23 PM

If you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically:

Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors

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chiastoday at 7:21 PM

I grew up calling it "Paper Scissors Rock"!

toshtoday at 7:23 PM

in german it’s

“Schere Stein Papier”