to think it's paper, scissors, stone

[Vitamints]

not rock, paper, scissors?

Heathens, the lot of them

A rock as big as a house would be a boulder bertie. Also a stone wouldn't break a pair of scissors but a rock would.

Therefore it's rock, paper, scissors.

I think this originates in Japan. If so rock is first. They say a little ditty rhyme that goes "First the rock..."

A rock as big as a house would be a boulder

Not necessarily.

The stone doesn't break the scissors, it blunts them.

Pipbin I think you are right.

And this Telegraph article from 2007 has both

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3319456/The-secret-to-winning-at-rock-paper-scissors.html

A boulder is a big round stone, I reckon. A rock is the thing you climb on at the seaside.

Rock, paper, scissors.

And that's from the seventies

But if it's translated from Japanese, do the Japanese have different words for rock and stone? And if so which definition is applied to rock? The American or the English one?

The stone doesn't break the scissors, it blunts them.

This is my understanding of it as well, i asked 2 of my teen age kids as i thought maybe it's a generation thing but they both said stone, i've never heard anyone say rock until this thread