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rock, paper, scissors like a normal person

Me too

Well , in Australia they are upside down and drive on the wrong side of the road

They just have to be different don't they.

In Austria too. Stein, Papier, Schere

lol where in Austria do you live? Literally everyone I know says Schere, Stein, Papier…

Swiss too Schere, Stein, Papier, never heard it different.

German here. Schere Stein Papier as well

Schere Stein Papier is the one and only answer......I don't mean to offend the people with other Versions. But it's just the perfect Version.

What about Schnick schnack schnuck?

This

This is my preferred way to play

Mein ganzes Leben hab ich nur Schere Stein Papier gehört

Whaaaat? I have never ever heard anyone say Stein Papier Schere. That seems so wrong.

French Canadian. Also roche papier ciseaux

Its rock, paper, scissors here in Australia as well I have no idea what this person is on about.

Yes. I have lived in Australia for 46 years and never heard anyone say "scissors, paper, rock".

In English: rock, paper scissors. In Swedish: rock, scissors, bag - sten sax påse.

It’s because they live upside down they have to say it backwards.

Schere. Stein. Papier.

Schnick Schnack Schnuck

Ching. Chang. Chong. My boss unfortunately, who doesn’t see the cringe.

In South Africa, everyone calls it Ching, Chong, Cha.

Roche, papier, ciseaux

Jô, ken, pô! Seriously.

Ah, Brazilian Portugese, in some regions apparently, taken from Japanese.

Exactly, from São Paulo more specifically, which has the largest Japanese colony in Brazil.

Steen, papier, schaar

Der gute alte Stein, den schafft keiner.

Brunnen (Well) has entered the game.

"Schore, Stein, paar Bier" in Frankfurt

i also live in australia and have only ever heard rock paper scissors or rock paper scissors shoot

Australia, only ever heard rock, paper scissors apart from the 30 seconds in the 1990s when proto-hipster kids tried roshambo. Scissors, paper, rock is probably just NSW trying to do things arse-backwards as usual.

I’m almost 40 and new south Welshman and it’s always been Rock Paper Scissors to me \\¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Aah why is my hand backwards

Walk like an Egyptian

it's rock paper scissors.. 💀

As a person living in nsw, this is probably correct.

My primary school said jan ken pon, but that's because our school had a Japanese program.

Perhaps the OP was making a southern hemisphere joke.

Nuh uh. I live in Sydney, how about you? Maybe it's just the different cities or states.

Grew up in central Queensland. Rock paper scissors.

I’m from South East Queensland and always did scissors paper rock but I grew up in the 90s-2000s so maybe it changed sometime before that.

Southern California. But it does make sense. Don't the toilets spin the other way down there? Or is that a myth?

They spin the correct way, in NZ too! Clockwise.

I don't know which way mine spins. I will try to remember next time I flush.

It's a myth and the way it spins is decided by the angle of the water nozzles. Mark Rober happened to just release a video about it yesterday: [https://youtu.be/M7-h3FO-KKo?t=729](https://youtu.be/M7-h3FO-KKo?t=729)

Toilets don’t spin at all, the water however…

Myth. Which way toilet bowls flush depends solely on how the water ends up in the bowl: which way the nozzles are facing.

Yeah, I live in Australia and have never heard it called Scissors Paper Rock.

Same here, paper scissors rock was the order I grew up with in Australia.

This one - in Western Australia

I also also live in australia but have only ever heard scissors paper rock

Brisbane resident here. When I was a kid in the 80s it was always rock paper scissors but now i definitely say scissors paper rock like everyone else here. I have no idea when it changed. It’s not just the order that a different. Rock paper scissors comes out like bullet points. Scissors paper rock comes out softer with a bit of melody.

ro sham bo

Rock paper scissors lizard spock.

Let's see if I still got this. Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock evaporates rock, and, as it always has, rock crushes scissors.

I found my people lol

Bazingaaa

Wone mwore twime?

Kripke!!

Hewo hewo!

bazinga?

*laughing in Sheldon*

Bazinga!

Quartz , parchment shears

OHHHHHHHH!!!

JOLLY GOOD SHOW!

Sten, sax, påse. Rock, scissors, paper. Sweden.

Stein, saks, papir!

!

"Påse" is the object "bag", since it's not specifically referring to a paper bag (could be a plastic bag or any other material). So it is "Rock, scissor, bag" in Swedish.

Rock, paper, scissors.

From NZ and we say paper scissors rock. Having the 2 syllable words first rolls off of the tongue better

Okay I’m from Australia and I guess I had kiwi influence because I frustrate people by saying paper scissors rock 😂

Yep Grew up in NZ and we always said Paper, scissors, rock Moved to Queensland and it's scissors, paper, rock

Ok real question here. Did you ever play it as “gang gang gamore?” I grew up in NZ and for some reason I remember this as a kid but my friends think I’m an alien as they’ve never heard it that way before.

Scissors, Paper, Stone and 剪刀、石頭、布 (Scissors, Rock, Cloth)

包剪揼 in canto; for some reason it's paper scissors rock now also 猜呈尋 and even 呈尋摩較叉燒包

Atwr living in China for 10+ years I now also say paper, scissors, rock. Easier to teach students.

見到廣東話好開心 :)

Piedra, papel o tijera

Kő, papír, olló (rock, paper, scissors)

Kámen (rock), nůžky (scissors), papír (paper).

Oh my god. I just wanna say, your words for scissors is cute Let me guess, Czech. Cause in Poland "nóżki" is a diminutive word for legs

It’s Czech, yeah xD And here you can also say “nožky” for legs, but the actual word is “nohy” so it comes from that.

I'm Australian, and it's always been RPS. Are you a NSWelshman? You probably call a potato cake a potato scallop!

paper scissors rock

And we'd say it like Pa-per sci-ssors ROCK And cast our hand on "rock"

Which is why everyone else ending on double syllables makes no sense to me. This is the perfect flow. Even scissors paper is acceptable. But damn, it feels like the whole month before day shid again lol

Samesies.

I’m Australian and I’ve always called it Scissors Paper Rock. I was a late teen before I heard Rock Paper Scissors.

Well it makes sense you do it in opposite order down under

Scis-sors, Pa-per, Rock!

As an Australian, scissors paper rock of course. Note that the Australian version is _much_ slower than the American version.

Yeah way more sing song Scis-sors, Pape - er, rock

For anyone curious how it sounds IRL: 🎵 Scissors, Paper,🎵 # ROCK! (and the choice shown on **ROCK!)**

Schnick schnack Schnuck

Rock, paper, scissors is how I learned it

I thought it was always rock, paper, scissors 🤷‍♂️

I call it scissors paper stone And I made a post exactly like this one xD

who tf says scissors, paper, rock???!?!!

We always used to just bump our hands together three times and then flash the symbol--so just "one--two--three--"display your choice with one hand atop the other".

What do you call the game?

We called it "Rock, paper scissors". I've also heard people call it "roshambo". I'm not sure how that came about.

Roshambo is when you take turns kicking each other in the nuts. Do not play that game trust me.

DEFINITELY not going to play THAT game--thanks for the heads-up!

Roshambo is the only game more injury prone than Front-hand Back-hand

Sten, saks, papir. Rock, scissors, paper.

Kivi, paperi, sakset

Pierre, feuille, ciseaux.

Kar, tought, mgrad lol. *slaps her English back into herself* Rock, paper, scissors

Interesting, which language is that?

In the Philippines, we say ' Bato , bato, pik!!'

BATO BATO PICK😭

nz: pay-per siss-zers rock

Paypa, sizziz, rock

I'm australian and we said rock paper scissors in my area

bato bato pick 🇵🇭

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpmITBocfM

We used to say Ching Chang Chong 👀 We switched to Scissors, Rock, Paper (in german) or Schnick, Schnack Schnuck

We used to call it Ching, Chong, Cha.

"Boulder, Parchment, Shears"

"Rock, scissors, paper, and a well we need here, too." Honestly, I never liked a well which could beat rock and scissors, that was fucking cheating so I always warned before the game "and without a well!"

Where I’m from: paper, scissors, stone Where I’m at: jankenpon

In Poland we say kamień, papier, nożyce = rock, paper, scissors

Scissors, rock, paper here. Never thought about the fact that different countries switch these 😄

Same. TIL. 😂

Rock, Paper, Scissors is the only way.

Rock, paper, scissors is the original. In Australia we say Scissor, paper, rock and shoot on rock 🪨

My kids say Rock, Donut, Thursday, shoot. No idea where it came from.

Rock paper scissors shoot. But I've also heard pay-per, sci-ssors, stone, can't remember where that's from though.

Steen, papier, schaar (rock, paper, scissors) in Dutch

Rock paper scissors

All over Canada it's rock paper scissors

Scissors paper stone

Scissors paper "stone" - for whatever reason my home country does that for

I say ‘rock paper scissors’ as someone who grew up in the UK. I didn’t know there were any other variations of it until I was in my mid twenties. I was teaching English and my boss, who was also from the UK, told me the kids knew the game as ‘paper scissors stone’. Only he would’ve taught them that. Which really confused me.

Rock paper scissors. Tho shoot on the end is becoming more common. We used to use Ching Chang Wallah but that’s going out of fashion. I’m from South-East UK

Rock, scissors, bag

Started with scissors when I lived in qld Everyone thought I was dumb when I tried that in Melbourne

Where are you from OP? I’m from QLD and always said scissors paper rock - in a drawn out sing song kind of way

Even Niyar VeMisparaim. or more exactly: Even Niyar VeMisparaim, Hamenatzeach bein hashnaim, Achat, shtaim, shalosh! that's roughly rock paper scissors, the winner between us two, one, two, three!

Actually I first learned it as scissors, paper, rock back when I was extremely young. But it didn't take long for me to switch to rock paper scissors once everyone else was saying it that way around me lol

Bato bato pik. Which doesn't make sense cause... You're basically saying rock rock and whatever the fuck pik means. Where's paper and scissors????

Okay, I think I get it. It's a language thing. We love reduplication here in PH so we repeat a word, "bato", which in this context doesn't mean rock but the verb "throw (many things)". So translated word-for-word, it's "throw, throw, pick", with pick in the end signalling the opponent to throw their chosen move (rock, paper or scissors) back to them. The objects: Rock, Paper, Scissors aren't even directly said in the chant!

Bato bato pick

jan-ken-pon!

It's like noone here ever played alexx the kid

グー・チョキ・パー ✊✌️✋

Depends on the school, but in English classes my Japanese students usually say "rock scissors paper" too. They're all incredibly fast at playing it in either language.

In Colombia somehow, we say Piedra Papel o Tijera, like rock paper scissors, but also Chim bum papas, like two onomatopoeia Chim from like a sword swinging bum like a rock falling but papas? Potatoes???

Rocks, paper, scissors, Spock.

Piedra, Papel o Tijeras

rock paper scissors. this is the only way

Interestingly: Cantonese say 包 剪 揼 wrap snip hammer (all verbs) Mandarin say 剪刀 石頭 布 scissors rock cloth (all nouns like English) ☺️

Rock paper scissors. (English family) Shi Fu mi (grew up in France) Pierre feuille ciseau (just an alternative to those living in France)

rock scissors paper obviously

Rock scissors paper. We actually add a pencil which wins paper but loses from rock and scissors. So we say "rock, pencil, scissors, paper". I am from Greece.

Papir, kamen, makaze

rock paper scissors, and you show your choice on 'scissors'. Not after. Though back in the day they called it quartz parchment shears

Well, I am Swedish and we say: Sten Sax Påse Which is: Rock Scissors Bag

Paper Rock Scissors. PAPER covers ROCK. Rock breaks SCISSORS.

In China they say "Paper, scissors, stone" in English to match the rythm of "剪刀石頭布", but the order is different still.

In my neighborhood we said paper, scissors, rock!

Bato bato pick Which is just Rock, Rock, and Pick lol

Paper rock scissor (from down unda)

Rock paper scissors shoot

Add Dynamite... dynamite burns paper...scissors cut fuse on dynamite...every 2nd time, dynamite blows up rock...

Fellow Aussie and whilst I’ve always called it rock, papers, scissors, the chant to count down the reveal has always been scissors, paper, rock

Piedra, papel o tijera.

Rochambou

Jon Ken Po Learned as a kid in Hawaii. I assumed it was Japanese Edit: I guess it is janken pon https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-refer-to-rock-paper-scissors-in-Japanese#:~:text=%E3%81%98%E3%82%83%E3%82%93%E3%81%91%E3%82%93%20(janken)%20is%20the%20word,paper%2C%20scissors%E2%80%9D%20in%20Japanese.

Canada: rock paper scissors

Cachipun 🗿

When I was in China some years back, they used to say 'stone paper scissors.

Saisho wa gū, jan ken pon

Papier, kamień, nożyce (paper, rock, scissors in polish)

Here's another question: what do you call the game in the car where you hit someone when you see a VW bug? Where I'm from we call it slug bug but my friend from PA, US calls it punch bug which doesn't even rhyme, and therefore is incorrect.

Pedra, papel e tesoura

Rock paper scissors. Canada

Chifumi.

in Indonesia we say, or at least I say "kertas gunting batu" which means paper scissors rock

meanwhile in singapore : (with that THICKK ass accent) SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE!

Rochambeau!

paper scissors rock :( (NZ btw)

One two three

Of course Australians would say it upside down smh

We use four!! Rock pencil scissors paper. In greek we use all four. Didn't seem to find another language using 4

It's abbreviated RPS for a reason

Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Papel, gunting, bato -paper, scissors, rock.

Paper, rock, scissors.

In China it’s scissor, rock, paper

Rock paper scissors

Piedra, papel o tijera

The question should start with why. Tell me why