to think it's paper, scissors, stone

[Vitamints]

not rock, paper, scissors?

Heathens, the lot of them

Scissors, paper, stone. Midlands.

Me and ds don't agree on this!

Paper Scissors Stone. Surrey.

Rock.

I win.

Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Nah you were too slow

Gazelle Lion Fruit over here (NZ). Apparently - the gazelle eats the fruit. The lion eats the gazelle. And the fruit gives the lion a bad tummy.

The variation on this is Gazelle Lion F-lion Fruit where F-lion is a female lion. If one person plays Lion and one person plays F-Lion then the first person to shout "cub!" wins. I did point out that a female lion was a lioness but apparently that doesn't scan so well.

(they play paper scissors rock too).

Paper Scissors Stone. RPS is American, because in British English a rock is not the size of your fist, it is bigger than a house and definitely can't be wrapped by a piddly sheet of A4. It was always PSS until about 10 years ago.

Not sure I'm on board with your strict definitions of rocks - after all, rockpools are rarely formed by rocks bigger than a house, otherwise you wouldn't be able to frolic in them, which is one of the greatest pleasures in life as any fule kno. Also, I have never heard of a sheet of A4 being involved - it's a piece big enough to wrap the rock that is in play, in as much as it's the wrapping motion that decides the outcome as opposed to the size.

It was always PSS until about 10 years ago.

No, it really wasn't.

Paper scissors stone. Londoner here. A rock is football sized or bigger. Rock is an Americanism.

Scissors paper stone

Midlands here.

As kids we said paper, scissors, stone.

My kids say rock, paper, scissors though. too many American TV shows

Rock, paper, scissors and I'm in Scotland.

the history of this game is really interesting

I have no idea what I said growing up, I have a feeling it might have been stone. However I moved to the states when I was 18, so I say RPS now. I had no idea I'd changed until I read this thread, lol

Didact - I prefer Rock, Cow Tool, Thagomizer.

vitamints

if you want a challenge try

rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock, spiderman, batman, wizard, glock.

Did anyone else say "sizz, sazz, prick!"

It was always paper, scissors, stone growing up, 40 odd years ago but seems to have become Americanised into rock, paper, scissors in the last 30 few years. Americans never say paper, scissors, stone, do they?

Paper, scissors, stone.

I am v old & from v.v. south of British Isles (but not from UK - there's a clue!)

OK, OK, not bigger than a house necessarily. Somewhere between a head and a house is a rock, bigger is probably a cliff or something. But in American English a rock is a stone, the kind that you could easily pick up with one hand. It's illogical to assume that the rock in rock paper scissors is a British rock, it's an American rock.

Therefore Rock paper scissors is an American influence and you all think it's right because it's what we're used to hearing. Admittedly, I do most often say rock, paper, scissors. But growing up it was always paper, scissors, stone so I insist that is the right and proper name.

"The Paper Scissors Stone Club was founded in London, England in 1842 immediately following the issuance of the1842 law declaring “any decision reached by the use of the process known as Paper Scissors Stone between two gentleman acting in good faith shall constitute a binding contract. Agreements reached in this manner are subject to all relevant contract and tort law.”

Rock paper scissors, am late 20s from North West.

It was rock paper scissors when I was a child. And that was a long time ago, before we had very much American TV

Paper Scissors Stone.

It's been very recent that I heard rock introduced.
It's alphabetical and no one ever said Rock Scissors Stone.

DoJo, I never heard of the paper wrapping the stone, it was always paper covers stone in my world.

I honestly don't recall which one I went for as a child but this BBC item from 2005 has it as stone rather than rock: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4521589.stm

where as a similar article from 2014 has rock rather than stone: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27228416

I think this might be one of those things where everyone has forgotten what i used to be. Rather like everyone associates Wethers Originals with grandparents even though they were only released over here in the 90s.