- I miss being so bored that you invent such games. I need to pack myself off for a holiday and leave my digital life behind for a few days, maybe where there is a piano and a nice view to paint.
- If you don't have a dice, you can mentally roll one. Think of a bunch of numbers and add them all together, then add every digit of that number, and so on until you end up with a single digit from 1 to 9. 1, 2 and 3 is rock, 4, 5 and 6 is paper and 7, 8 and 9 is scissors.
For example: 23+42 (or 2+3+4+2 if that's easier for you to do, the result will be the same) = 65 → 6+5 = 11 → 1+1 = 2, rock.
Great to fall asleep, given how boring the game must be. I use that dice system in bed but in a RPG game (1 = "No, and also..."; 2,3,4 = "No"; 5 = "Yes, but..."; 6,7,8 = "Yes"; 9 = "Yes, and also...").
- My grandfather, was a chess-meister, not of huge proportions, but well known in our city. Chess was almost like a diseases (he did not taught my father and his brother in the game, knowing the pain and suffering this would bring later in life)... So one thing he did when he was back home from the local chess club, is to play against himself - replaying old moves, or by the book, or something new, just heard. He would also this with other games - like bridge (or similar). He was truly a genius in his own, and I'm sure he had good time, but he understood really well that it was not good habit long term.
Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to get through
by antononcube
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- Interesting variant. I might program it for some of the «Rock-Paper-Scissors extensions» here:
https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-pape...
Some of the extensions would need polyhedral dices:
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/
- This is genius!
I was not expecting such an elegant way to deal with PvP in an analog action solitaire game, excellent!!
by tunesmith
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- Sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet that grew up knowing it as "Rock Scissors Paper".
I still defend that as the best name in English. Rock needs to go first. Rock beats Scissors beats Paper. It's the most straightforward order.
- Ditto with Snakes and Ladders and the Goose game (juego de la oca in Spanish), with a similar gameplay. And Yahtzee.
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