What do you call the game with scissors, paper and rock

[TheDestructiveSquirrel]

Funny thing is I never heard it referred to directly as Roshambo until college. There was the South Park joke about Roshambo before that, so there was a moment where I had an inappropriate fit of giggles when someone in a college club suggested that we "Roshambo" to decide something.

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Came here to post that Roshambo is from South Park :p

It's rock paper scissors in Canada

 

[Syriel]

wtf? how is roshambo so unpopular? is it a very specific regional thing? that's all i've ever heard it called.

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Where are you from? Board has a lot of Americans and Europeans, so I'm not surprised at the heavy lean towards Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Took me a sec to parse the OP's thread title just because the series of three words was "backwards" to my mind. :)

 

[27 Burritos]

rock paper scissors

 

[HotHamBoy]

I love saying Roshambo but RPS is the standard everyone here knows.

I remember Janken from Parappa the Rapper :)

 

[faceless]

the vast vast majority of times, i have heard it as rock, paper, scissors, but i've heard paper, rock, scissors, roshambo and janken before, and definitely never the other two listed.

 

[retroman]

Alex Kidd's Big-Handed Boss Fight Bonanza

 

[Kodama4]

Rock paper, Scissors...

Any other way is not civilized..

 

[earthsucks]

rock, scissors, paper.

australia.

 

[Nyx]

It's 'papier, schaar, steen' in Dutch.
So paper, scissors, rock.

 

[ClivePwned]

Potato Scallops

 

[finfinfin]

Paper, Scissors, Stone.

 

[Striferser]

Batu, gunting, kertas

Suit(shuvit) jepang
We also use Human, ant, and elephant

Order human>ant>elephant>human
From Indonesia btw

 

[Deleted member 19003]

It's rock paper scissors in the US mainly. But as younger kids we also had rock paper scissors + dynamite and other silly added on weapons.

 

[ED Cantu]

In Mexico we call it Piedra, Papel o Tijeras, but where I grew up kids also call it Chin Cham Pu, don't ask me why.

 

[The BLJ]

 

[Monkey Gland Sauce]

Interesting. Sching Schang Schong or Ching Chang Chong in Germany.

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One version is Ching Chong Cha here in South Africa.

 

[chicken_pasta]

Piedra, papel o tijera.

 

[thedas]

Pierre, feuille, ciseaux in France.

 

[winkyface]

ca-chi-pún (Chile)

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+1

 

[Tortahegesztő]

Kő, papír, olló. (Hungary)
Rock, paper, scissors it is.

 

[Deleted member 4482]

pizza paper pepper

 

[DeltaRed]

Rock, Paper, Scissors. UK.

But I know of Janken from Alex Kidd.

 

[Harry Potter Obama]

What rotten hellscape do you have to be from to call it Roshambo?

Anyway, everybody knows the best way to play it is Lady, Hunter, Bear

 

[ADee]

Sten Sax Påse (Stone scissor bag)

Sweden

 

[CloudWolf]

Steen, papier, schaar

So Rock, Paper, Scissors.

 

[GasProblem]

Steen, papier, schaar

So Rock, Paper, Scissors.

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Yup. Have never heard it called anything else.

 

[Quacktion]

1-2-3

 

[TheYanger]

Ok in hindsight I voted rock paper scissors, but roshambo was always what we called it as kids. Both are acceptable, the other orders of the 3 are wrong.

 

[ara]

Kivi, sakset, paperi, so RSP.

In English I'd call it rock, paper, scissors.

 

[Clefargle]

RPS

USA

 

[i_am_ben]

I've heard it called sim, sam , sum in Australia.

No idea where it comes from though.

 

[clay_ghost]

Scissors, paper, stone.

 

[Staf]

In Sweden when translated it's "Rock, scissors, paper". So it's obviously the correct one.

 

[Mechaplum]

Janken.

 

[F-Pina]

Papel, pedra, tesoura (Portugal)
*Paper, rock, scissors.

 

[Banzai]

Stein, Schere, Papier in Germany.
(rock, scissors, paper)

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Weird. I know it as "Schere, Stein, Papier", so "scissors, rock, paper". I'm in Lower Saxony.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Pretty sure the regional rules around here for roshambo involves a lot more kicking each other in the balls until someone keels over. Quite different from a traditional rock, paper, scissors game.

 

[MrKlaw]

voted for rock paper scissors. Surprised it got so many as the media often seems to call it paper scissors rock.

We also use Janken pon but thats because we're a mixed household (the single syllables really flows nicely with the countdown)

 

[hurroocane]

Interesting. Sching Schang Schong or Ching Chang Chong in Germany.

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Schnick Schnack Schnuck

why do we have so many weird names for it in Germany 🤔

 

[M4xim1l1ano]

ca-chi-pún (Chile)

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+1

 

[fieldafar]

Rock, paper, scissors. Australia.
Although when I was in primary school, we called it 'paper, scissors, rock'.

 

[iosa]

So no one uses the term "shifumi" or "chifoumi" ? That's how it was always called around me (I'm french) it's easier to say than Rock-Paper-Scissors

 

[TAJ]

Funny thing is I never heard it referred to directly as Roshambo until college. There was the South Park joke about Roshambo before that, so there was a moment where I had an inappropriate fit of giggles when someone in a college club suggested that we "Roshambo" to decide something.

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South Park was the only place I'd heard it until this thread.

 

[Osahi]

Haha, you have the same discussion in English-speaking countries? Here in Belgium, depending where you live it's Blad, Steen, Schaar (Sheet, Stone, Scissors) or Schaar, Steen, Papier (Scissors, Stone, Paper). The first one is of course the only right one, as Schaar, Steen, Papier fucks up the rhytm Blad, Steen, Schaar has.

Steen, papier, schaar

So Rock, Paper, Scissors.

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It's 'papier, schaar, steen' in Dutch.
So paper, scissors, rock.

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Things I learned today, across the border in the Netherlands they have two more wrong ways to say it.

 

[Deleted member 27246]

Netherlands: Steen, Papier, Schaar

Indonesia: Gajah (Elephant) Orang (Human) Semut (Ant) Thumb is elephant which tramples human, human is index finger which crushes the ant, ant is pinky which can crawl into the elephants trunk.

 

[Irminsul]

Weird. I know it as "Schere, Stein, Papier", so "scissors, rock, paper". I'm in Lower Saxony.

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Yes, me too. Although, while playing it, I think I've only ever said "Schnick, Schnack, Schnuck" when "counting down". The hand gestures itself are still called scissors, rock, paper, though.

 

[Randam]

Weird. I know it as "Schere, Stein, Papier", so "scissors, rock, paper". I'm in Lower Saxony.

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Lower Saxony too.
Just asked around in the break room.
2 said Schere, Stein, Papier, 2 said Stein, Schere, Papier. Lol.

 

[Osahi]

Netherlands: Steen, Papier, Schaar

Indonesia: Gajah (Elephant) Orang (Human) Semut (Ant) Thumb is elephant which tramples human, human is index finger which crushes the ant, ant is pinky which can crawl into the elephants trunk.

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Haha, this is great. Not the way you say it in The Netherlands, to a Belgian it sounds like chalk on a nailboard.

But the Indonesian thing is amazing. Way more inventive and fantastical.

 

[lizzardpt]

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Same order in Portuguese

 

[massoluk]

Pao-Ying-Choob -Thailand. เป่ายิ้งฉุบ

Actually an abbreviation of a much longer phrase kids say when playing

I have no clue about etymology behind this one, the name didn't really translate to anything. May be borrowed words from Chinese or something