How to play Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

16 Feb 2010 4 Comments

Fans of The Big Bang Theory might have seen the episode where Sheldon and Rajesh try to decide whether to watch Saturn 3 or Deep Space Nine by playing “Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock” (“The Lizard-Spock Expansion”, season 2, episode 8).

Samuel Kass and Karen Bryla originally invented this modification of the popular Rock-Paper-Scissors game in 1998 to lower the perceived probability of 75-80% of games played between friends ending in ties.

rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock

While the rules for the original “Rock-Paper-Scissors” game are:

  • Scissors cuts Paper
  • Paper covers Rock
  • Rock crushes Scissors

… the rules for the improved “Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock” version are:

  • Scissors cuts Paper
  • Paper covers Rock
  • Rock crushes Lizard
  • Lizard spoisons Spock
  • Spock smashes Scissors
  • Scissors decapitates Lizard
  • Lizard eats Paper
  • Paper disproves Spock
  • Spock vaporizes Rock
  • Rock crushes Scissors

 

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4 Responses to “How to play Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock”

  1. Megg Wilson Reply 21 May 2010 at 21:27

    This is one of the best episodes. I absolutely love ‘The Big bang Theory’.

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