Thursday, January 19, 2012

Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

Clipped from Wikipedia:

Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock is a five-gesture expansion of the classic selection method game rock-paper-scissors. It operates on the same basic principle, but includes two additional weapons: the lizard (formed by the hand as a sock-puppet-like mouth) and Spock (formed by the Star Trek Vulcan salute). This reduces the chances of a round ending in a tie compared to the more traditional game.

The game was originally invented by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla. It was mentioned in an article of The Times in 2005,and popularized in 2008 by "The Lizard-Spock Expansion", the 8th episode, Season 2 of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Scissors cut paper
Paper covers rock
Rock crushes lizard
Lizard poisons Spock
Spock smashes scissors
Scissors decapitate lizard
Lizard eats paper
Paper disproves Spock
Spock vaporizes rock
Rock crushes scissors

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