In rock paper scissers, how does paper beat rock? I mean, rock bends scissers, and they won't work anymore. Scissers cut paper, and it won't work anymore. But paper covering rock? No structural damage to rock.

I suppose that it is more of a philosophical defeat. The rock is no longer seen therefore "out of sight, out of mind." Part of a rock's power comes in the physical intimidation factor which is negated by being covered by a paper.

paper is used for the written word, the written word can move mountains, move people to war, to kill, to love, to hate, to help each other.
moutains are blown up by a work order (written on paper somewhere)nothing beats the written word - paper is part of the process of communication that beats everthing.

there!

It's not that the paper, rock or scissors have power themselves...it's YOU USING THEM that enables them to beat other objects. You use scissors to cut paper, you use rock to crush scissors, you use paper to wrap up rock...making it into a gift. You can no longer use rock if it's a gift. Who ever heard of crushing scissors with a gift? See. That's how it works.

It's more emotional distress than structural damage.

Something has to beat rock or everyone would always pick rock and there would be no game.

The paper covers the rock, so the rock cant see what its doing anymore, and hey if i couldnt see what i was doing then i couldnt beat the paper either!

Well then, how about Knife, Gun, Bomb instead.

Knife beats bomb because it cuts the fuse.
Gun beats knife because the knife holder is shot. Bomb beats gun because it blows up the gun.

That would make better sense than?

Well, when the paper goes over the rock, the rock suffocates, I guess...

I believe that by covering rock, paper disrupts the connection between rock and the mothership. Without that contact, rock becomes confused and lethargic, passing into tupor and eventually death.

Maybe the rock is a hunk of gypsum and the paper comes with water (but that is not mentioned) and the paper forms papier mache' with the gypsum rock and then it falls and breaks into alot of pieces...


I really don't know. A question that has plagued mankind for at least a hundred years.

the rock disappears when it is covered. its basically a handsign. fingers, fist or flat hand. call it what you will.

It's getting suffication.

Actually, every coment so far is incorrect. There's actually a rock paper scissors society, they say this is the most commonly asked question. They claim it comes from an ancient Chinese tradition where when a request was sent to the ruler on a piece of "paper" or the equivalent at the time, the rock was placed over the paper if the request was accepted, the paper was draped over the rock, indicating defeat of the request, if the request was rejected. Hence, paper over rock = defeat.

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r u stupid rock pwns all!!!