08/28/2026
This classic game is played all over the world. You are probably familiar with the game, where two people hold out their hands at the same time in a shape: a fist is a rock, flat hand is paper, and two fingers are scissors. Rock crushes scissors, scissors cuts paper, and paper covers rock.
Here are some fun variations you may not have heard of:
• In German-speaking countries, it’s rock-paper-scissors-well, where well swallows rock and scissors, but is covered by paper.
• The TV show Big Bang Theory made a world-famous version: rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock, where scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors cuts paper, paper covers rocks, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and rock crushes scissors. Try saying those rules quickly … or find the episode of Big Bang on You Tube and watch Sheldon zip through it.🤓