Rock Paper Scissors and Beyond

You are probably wondering why anyone would go to the trouble to organize a World Rock Paper Scissors Society.

You would probably be equally amazed to discover that "The Scissors Paper Stone Club was founded in London, England in 1842 immediately following the issuance of the1842 law declaring 'any decision reached by the use of the process known as Paper Scissors Stone between two gentleman acting in good faith shall constitute a binding contract. Agreements reached in this manner are subject to all relevant contract and tort law.'”

You might be close to stupefied by your eventual discovery of the strategies and significances of Advanced RPS

And yet, should you read carefully enough, and explore deeply enough, you might be find yourself able to win against this online version.

One of the most successful of the games we introduced through the New Games Foundation was a combination of RPS (the approved designation for the abovementioned) with tag. It is still around, called, for some odd reason, Rock, Paper, Scissors Tag.

And, should you wonder further about the RPS relevance of the illustration at the beginning of this piece where people are doing something that is clearly neither Rock, nor Scissors, nor even Paper - prepare to be amused and amazed by the RPS-like wonders of a game devised by this very author - "Panther, Person, Porcupine."