Talk:Rock paper scissors

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Rock paper scissors is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 13, 2004.

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Date	Process	Result
October 11, 2003	Featured article candidate	Promoted
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
November 16, 2004	Featured article review	Kept
May 7, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
August 14, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
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Fire and water

In the rock-paper-scissors-fire-water variant, what do the fire and water gestures look like? I've tried searching but this vital information is surprisingly hard to find. 2A00:23C7:548F:C01:D4AF:E337:1EE4:2553 (talk) 02:33, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Squid Game: The Challenge

The winner of the Netflix series "Squid Game: The Challenge" was determined by playing rock, paper, scissors winning $4.56 million dollars. 2601:641:500:3DA0:380B:47D6:EFC7:9785 (talk) 16:40, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Quartz, Parchment, Shears

Someone added this as an alternate name for the game, but it's just a joke from Regular Show. Should be removed. Firelily (talk) 23:25, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology section ordering

I found it confusing that the article refers to "Roshambo" early in the "Etymology" section before actually defining or explaining what that is. For readers unfamiliar with the term, this can be disorienting, especially since the explanation doesn't come until later under the "Names" section. It might be clearer either to briefly present "Roshambo" as an alternative name in the lead section, or to restructure the article so that "Names" comes before "Etymology".

Would others support tweaking the structure or wording to improve readability for those who don’t already know the term? PatternMatcher (talk) 00:31, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]