Two interesting things about the rock paper scissors game: 1. scissors were actually invented before paper, and 2. an early Japanese variant was frog slug snake (frog beats slug, slug beats snake, snake beats frog).
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I think the mushi-ken shapes might be superior, because rock is a flaw in RPS (giving you an extra moment to change your hand-shape). Why would a slug beat a snake? I guess the article attributes it to a translation error from Chinese venomous centipedes, which isn’t wholly convincing… and are there really venomous centipedes?
This eight-inch long centipede is the stuff of nightmares:
Wikipedia: Chinese red headed centipede
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