[HN Gopher] Rock Paper Scissors Solitaire
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       Rock Paper Scissors Solitaire
        
       Author : klez
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2025-11-28 17:54 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | telesilla wrote:
       | I miss being so bored that you invent such games. I need to pack
       | myself off for a holiday and leave my digital life behind for a
       | few days, maybe where there is a piano and a nice view to paint.
        
       | tunesmith wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | chias wrote:
         | I grew up calling it "Paper Scissors Rock"!
        
         | deaddodo wrote:
         | If you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically:
         | 
         | Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors
        
           | furyofantares wrote:
           | Or any other ordering
        
         | tosh wrote:
         | in german it's
         | 
         | "Schere Stein Papier"
        
         | malkia wrote:
         | Is there a niche "endian" humor about this :) - e.g. is this
         | the little endian, or big endian, or "middle" endian of "Rock
         | Paper Scissors" - excuse my really poor attempt at this.
        
         | nkrisc wrote:
         | That rings a bell, as in I think I had some classmates as a kid
         | who called it that, and I remember thinking they were weird.
         | I'd guess it was maybe 1:3 in favor of RPS over RSP.
        
       | antononcube wrote:
       | Interesting variant. I might program it for some of the <<Rock-
       | Paper-Scissors extensions>> here:
       | 
       | https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-pape...
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       | Some of the extensions would need polyhedral dices:
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       | https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | Ditto with Snakes and Ladders and the Goose game (juego de la oca
       | in Spanish), with a similar gameplay. And Yahtzee.
        
         | kruffalon wrote:
         | Parchis? "!Oca, oca, tira porque me/te toca!"
        
       | malkia wrote:
       | My grandfather, was a chess-meister, not of huge proportions, but
       | well known in our city. Chess was almost like a diseases (he did
       | not taught my father and his brother in the game, knowing the
       | pain and suffering this would bring later in life)... So one
       | thing he did when he was back home from the local chess club, is
       | to play against himself - replaying old moves, or by the book, or
       | something new, just heard. He would also this with other games -
       | like bridge (or similar). He was truly a genius in his own, and
       | I'm sure he had good time, but he understood really well that it
       | was not good habit long term.
       | 
       | Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to
       | get through
        
       | kruffalon wrote:
       | This is genius!
       | 
       | I was not expecting such an elegant way to deal with PvP in an
       | analog action solitaire game, excellent!!
        
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