![]() The snake is represented by the index finger and defeats the frog. The slug is represented by the pinky finger and defeats the snake. The specific gestures were the thumb as the frog, which defeats the slug. As for the many three hand gesture variants, these are called sansukumi-ken.Īs an example of one variant of this, we have the Japanese “mushi-ken” which instead of using Rock, Paper, and Scissors, used hand gestures representing a frog, a slug, and a snake. ![]() We are, of course, referring to Rock, Paper, Scissors.Īs noted, in the early going, there were a myriad of these hand games using a series of hand gestures, sometimes even using various chants. One of those games, in turn, spread from Japan throughout the world in surprisingly recent times. That said, the trail gets much more clear starting around the 17th century which saw some of these games having migrated over to Japan and explicit references to them in surviving text. As to the exact genesis of Rock, Paper, Scissors, however, this appears to originate in hand games from China, supposedly going back about two thousand years, though primary documented evidence of this is scant. Hand based games have been around seemingly as long as humans have been humaning. Jay Soy asks: Who invented rock, paper, scissors?
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