Rock Paper Scissors Freeman Vort (RPSFV)
I did not invent this game, but I was inspired enough
by Sam
Kass's Rock
Paper Scissors Spock Lizard and my interest
in Valve's
game Half-Life to make
a variant to Kass's and Bryla's game. Kass "invented [RPSSL] (with
Karen Bryla) because it seems like when you know someone well enough,
75-80% of any Rock-Paper-Scissors games you play with that person end
up in a tie." The version from Kass and Bryla was a variation of the
game that reduced that probability with the addition of Spock and the
Lizard. This one uses Dr. Gordon Freeman and a Vortigaunt instead.
How to play: Scissors cuts Paper covers Rock
squashes Vort zaps Freeman snaps
Scissors stabs Vort tears Paper distracts
Freeman crowbars Rock crushes Scissors.
Moves and outcomes.
|
| Rock
| Paper
| Scissors
| Freeman
| Vortigaunt
|
| Rock
| Tie
| Loss: cover
| Win: crush
| Loss: crowbar
| Win: squash
|
| Paper
| Win: cover
| Tie
| Loss: cut
| Win: distract
| Loss: tear
|
| Scissors
| Loss: crush
| Win: cut
| Tie
| Loss: snap
| Win: stab
|
| Freeman
| Win: crowbar
| Loss: distract
| Win: snap
| Tie
| Loss: zap
|
| Vort
| Loss: squash
| Win: tear
| Loss: stab
| Win: zap
| Tie
|
To determine if you won or lost: select your move from the
column and your opponent's move from the row.
As suggested by Kass, if you like to swing your fist back and
forth while saying "Rock, Paper, Scissors, GO!", you can replace that
with "One, Two, Three, GO!".
RPSFV: Copyright © 2023 Anton McClure. (Based on
Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard
by Sam Kass
and Karen Bryla.
RPSSL: Copyright © 1995-2021 Sam Kass.
Both RPSSL and RPSFV are licensed under
a Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Also see the Association
for the Annihilation of Paranoids, along with the theories On Pittsburgh
Climate, Rock
Paper Scissors Spock Lizard, Statistical
Disproof of Time Travel, Replacement for
"foo", and The
Fortwinth System.
Anton McClure /
asm@aperture.akron.oh.us