Rock Paper Scissors Shephard Freeman
Anton McClure, 2023-11-30
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 Half-Life
(which I really think Valve should re-release under the GNU GPL) 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." His was a slight variation that reduced that
probability with the addition of Spock and the Lizard, and this one
uses Dr. Gordon Freeman and Corporal Adrian Shephard instead.
How to play: Scissors cuts Paper covers
Rock squashes Freeman crowbars Shephard snaps
Scissors stabs Freeman tears Paper confuses
Shephard grenades Rock crushes Scissors.
The below table shows all of the various combinations.
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Rock:
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Paper:
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Scissors:
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Shephard:
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Freeman:
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Rock:
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Tie
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Loss: cover
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Win: crush
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Loss: grenade
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Win: squash
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Paper:
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Win: cover
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Tie
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Loss: cut
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Win: confuse
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Loss: tear
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Scissors:
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Loss: crush
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Win: cut
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Tie
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Loss: snap
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Win: stab
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Shephard:
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Win: grenade
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Loss: confuse
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Win: snap
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Tie
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Loss: crowbar
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Freeman:
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Loss: squash
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Win: tear
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Loss: stab
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Win: crowbar
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Tie
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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!".
RPSSF: 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 RPSSF are licensed under
a Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Anton McClure /
anton@presumed.net
Last updated: Thu Nov 30 08:55:49 EST 2023
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