LJ Anthropology #Whatever

[packbat]

Because the question is too pressing to be left unasked.

[Poll #1157201]

Comments

let's go from three to five

[(Anonymous)]

okay- if you were going to add two more 'weapons' to this game, beyond rock, paper, and scissors, what would they be?

remember that they have to either win or lose against each of the other items, and their must be an equal number of wins/losses per weapon.

There would also have to be hand signs for both of the new objects.

rock, paper, scissors, ... , and ... !

I think I might have seen a web site about this last year.

Re: let's go from three to five

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Well, the way I see it, rock-paper-scissors has two important features:

1. If you guess your opponent's weapon, you win.
   
2. If your opponent plays a purely random strategy, you win as often as you lose regardless of what you do.

If we want to preserve those things, I think we would have to add three weapons. Dunno what they would be yet.