Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock

Wanna try something different  than the normal rock-paper-scissors. You can try playing Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock is an 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.

The rules of Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock are as follows:

  • 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

There are ten possible pairings of the five gestures, where each gesture beats two of the other gestures and is beaten by the remaining two.

2 Responses to Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock

  1. I prefer the old standby Rock-Paper-Scissors myself.

    Hot debate. What do you think? Thumb up 5 Thumb down 4

  2. Hi,

    I would like to make a shirt out of this, do you have a high res image of this?

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