Rock, Paper, Scissors or Scissors, Paper, Stone?

[StormCloud52]

My sister laughed at me for saying one of these but I’m sure it’s what we grew up with and it was the more common, which has now changed to the other.

YABU - Only one is acceptable
YANBU - Both are in common usage

Rock, paper, scissors is the correct term. The only other thing I've heard it called is roe sham bo (sp) but that's only from my American friends

I've only ever heard of Rock 🪨 paper 📃 scissors ✂️

I swear it used to be Scissors, Paper, Stone.

Rock, paper, scissors.

I've heard it both ways but the most common is Rock Paper Scissors.

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We used to call it paper scissors stone when I was younger I think, I had forgotten that until I read this thread.
I think it’s rock paper scissors now though.

We 100% did. I think there is some sort od Mandela Effect going on where everyone has forgot that it used to be Scissors, Paper, Stone.

And Ching Chang Waller. We always called it that too.

Rochambeau. It's after a person, a Frenchman who fought in the American Revolution.

It's definitely Scissors, Paper, Stone! Anything else is madness.

It was definitely scissors paper stone when I was growing up. Rock paper scissors is what my dc call it

I’m 60. I have always used rock, paper, scissors

It was scissors, paper, stone when I was young.

When I was about 20, there was an episode of Sex and the City where one of the women got engaged, but Carrie wanted attention as she'd just been dumped via a post-it note. Carrie put the post-it note on the engagement ring and said "paper covers rock". I remembered thinking it was a shame they'd fluffed that line by getting the name of the game wrong.

There's no Mandela effect here, I never heard SPS

You're all wrong.

It's rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock.

It was scissors, paper, stone when I was a child( I'm 62). Stone had changed to rock when my children played it, they came home from school and insisted it was called that, I assumed it was some type of Americanism.

I think scissors, paper, stone was used years back. Rock is American when used to mean stone, pebble etc. Theory was that American puritans influenced the language: 'stones' are testicles so rock is substituted, 'stones' measuring weight is omitted. Also 'bag' is udder or breast so American-English had 'purse' or 'pocketbook' instead of 'bag' / 'handbag'. Allegedly.

It's regional. Same as the name for knocking on a door and running away. If you asked people here to name that you'd get at least 20 different replies.

I grew up with scissors, paper, stone, and calling it "knock-a-door run". My late OH called it rock, paper, scissors, and called the other "Thunder and Lightning" (Knock like thunder, run like lightning).

This was all a bit complicated for me at school - we couldn't always agree what won, especially when new objects were introduced. e.g. dynamite, well, etc.

Found 'One potato, two potato...' much better - and I believe is even used today when there is a tied vote in Parliament.

scissors - paper - rock is the way that I know. But it could be an Australian thing.

There was a cartoon called Regular Show that our DD used to watch. And the very very old man off it, called it Quartz, Parchment, Shears 🤣

That's what it's known as in our household and will forever be known as.

I've only heard rock paper scissors, but google confirms that both are used.

In some countries there is also a well.