Rock, paper, or scissors. The original version of the game goes back to ancient China, and with the passing of time it has incurred several changes in its elements, but not in the basic rules. Rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper and paper beats rock? On YouTube’s Waterjet Channel, they decided to find out, going so far as to turn paper into a cutting disc. Can it do something to the rock?
The “Rock, Paper or Scissors” game hasn’t always been very popular. Nevertheless, it has always made a comeback and ranked highly favorited to settle a discourse amongst companions. One of the most surprising aspects of the Rock, Paper or Scissors game is its universal name. For example, the Chinese called it shoushiling.
It is assumed that it entered Japan in the seventeenth century as a drinking game, adopting the form of mushi-ken, with a slug, a frog, and a snake (frog-eat-slug, slug-poison-snake, snake-eats-frog). Another variant was the kitsune-ken, with foxes, hunters, and the village head, and in the early twentieth century, the game came to the West as “Rock, Paper or Scissors. “
Enough of the history for now. The rules of the game are clear, but on the Waterjet Channel of YouTube they have a question. Can the paper really defeat the rock? The answer to that question requires a bit of creativity…
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