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

It's obviously rock paper scissors

Never in my life have I heard the other one

Now you've said it - yes! I remember paper, scissors, stone very clearly.

Rock, paper, scissors - or as my two used to call it rock, pisser, scissors!

Knock Down Ginger, for some unknown reason!

I voted yabu but I actually think you are correct now!

Paper
Scissors
Stone

It definitely did used to be this

Oh my goodness definitely grew up playing scissors, paper, stone in the 80s. I am sure rock, paper, scissors is an Americanism.

Scissors paper stone and hen I was growing up (SE England, a long time ago!).

It was definitely paper scissors stone when we were kids (90s). A rock was a massive thing at the beach bigger than a person, not a small thing you can pick up.

Rock paper scissors is the Americanism, but because we all saw that on TV and it has since been included in a lot of things like video games, it's become the standard term even in the UK. I think by the 00s I would have used either. I think RPS is slightly easier to say, the older British version has too many S sounds.

I was a kid in the 90s too

Never in my life heard anything apart from rock paper scissors

Yes! Paper scissors stone in my youth.

I'm sure there is a Mandela effect kind of thing, because DH swears it has always been RPS but we literally went to the same school at the same time. So we must have played the same version. I just think his memory has been more robustly overridden because he watches a lot of dubbed anime which is usually translated into American English, he likes American sitcoms (it seems to come up there a lot...) and he works in video games where, as said, RPS is a term for a kind of game mechanic. I have rarely encountered the game as an adult aside from, as said, American sitcoms, and playing it with my own children.

It was definitely Scissors, paper, stone in the 80s.
Rocks only came into it from American TV.

Cherry door knocking. No idea what cherries had to do with anything..

My mum used to play rock paper scissors in the early 1950s.
I played rock paper scissors in the 80s. I remember running home from school to teach dm this new game I'd learnt and she already knew it. Totally different areas so it wasn't just one region.

Ding dong ditch!

I would have called it rock, paper, scissors (grew up in the UK in the 80s). My 8-year-old Australian DS plays "scissors, paper, rock, karate chop!"

Paper, Scissors, stone is mentioned in articles dating from the 1800s. We'd have taken it to Australia and the USA etc. It was a Chinese game. Gerald Fairlie (Bulldog Drummond) wrote two books in the 1920's, Scissors cut paper and Stone blunts scissors. So it seems, Paper, Scissors, stone was the original.

I have always said 'Paper, Scissors, Stone'. Wikipedia acknowledges that as a name but the main article is under 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'.
Shame.

NOPE DEFFO CHING CHANG WOLLA

IM FROM EAST LONDON AND I SWEAR THATS ONLY AN EAST LONDON THING

Rock, paper, scissors.

I could have sworn I said 'Rock, Paper, Scissors (Hertfordshire in the 90s) but everyone seems so insistent that's wrong that now I'm second guessing myself?!

What I am certain of is we didn't say 'Shoot!' when making our selection. That is an American thing that the youth of today has absorbed right? It wasn't a thing for us 30plusers was it?!

It was scissors, paper, stone during my childhood (70s /80s in the Midlands). As pps have said, RPS is an Americanism that has taken over. A rock in British English is something much bigger.

Scissors,paper, stone. Did anyone ever play Alex The Kid on Sega? That had a nifty scissors,paper stone game at the end of the level.