Paper Rock Scissors

[PeteXXX]

Never quite understand it...

 

[Slick]

You missed rock blunts scissors. What s not to get?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

 

[classic33]

You missed rock blunts scissors. What's not to get?

Rock beats scissors!

 

[Beebo]

The paper beats rock bit never quite works for me.
It seems a little too contrived.

 

[PeteXXX]

You missed rock blunts scissors. What s not to get?

Ahhhh... simples..

 

[Slick]

The paper beats rock bit never quite works for me.
It seems a little too contrived.

Paper covers rock.

 

[Slick]

Rock beats scissors!

By blunting them.

 

[classic33]

By bunting them.

At which point it can't cut paper.

 

[Slick]

At which point it can't cut paper.

 

[Brandane]

I always thought it was - scissors cut paper; paper wraps rock; rock breaks scissors.
Which makes it almost logical.

 

[classic33]

I always thought it was - scissors cut paper; paper wraps rock; rock breaks scissors.
Which makes it almost logical.

It is, just worded in a different way.

 

[Brandane]

It is, just worded in a different way.

But in the OP's diagram, it just says "beats". No wonder he has never really understood it, as there is no logic as to WHY one beats the other. At least the version I heard gives some sort of logical reasoning. Errm, I think .

 

[Drago]

An armed robber recently played a similar game with an officer I know in Northampton. It would seem that Taser beats hammer.

 

[classic33]

But in the OP's diagram, it just says "beats". No wonder he has never really understood it, as there is no logic as to WHY one beats the other. At least the version I heard gives some sort of logical reasoning. Errm, I think .

Probably a foreign version.