I’ve often enjoyed the game and justice purveyor Rock, Paper, Scissors. As a means of deciding things between people, it’s great and it’s also a fun game.
I’ve recently enjoyed playing with my kids until the game devolves into a competition of who can make the silliest hand gesture when it’s time to present rock paper or scissors.
One thing has really bugged me about the game. I can see how a rock could technically “beat” a pair of scissors and clearly, scissors can “beat” paper. But how the hell can paper beat rock? It just doesn’t make any sense and no one has an answer.
So, we decided to change it up a little. The hand gestures are the same as is the cycle of which beats which, but the names are different. We keep rock, but switch out paper for water because water erodes rock and switch scissors for sticks because rock can break the sticks but sticks can float on water. Ah ha! Perfect!
Feel free to adopt the new nomenclature of rock water sticks, or keep with the completely illogical rock paper scissors.