Rock, Paper, Scissors. A game that has been entertaining people and solving “who will go first” for years now. My 4-year-old daughter just discovered it for the first time and LOVES it. Which got me thinking where did it even come from?
According to the World Rock Paper Scissors Association, www.wrpsa.com (yes, that’s a real thing come to find out) the earliest versions of the game originated in China as far back as 1600. Then it became popular in Japan, where they called it “Jon Ken Pon.” After that it really caught on in Europe during the 20th Century before eventually making it here to the United States by the 1930s. The rest is history.
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