WE bet you’ve played it at one point in your life – but do you know how Rock, Paper, Scissors really started?
Thanks to a viral social media video, people are just discovering the game’s surprising origin, and everyone has said they didn’t see it coming.
According to a presenter of the history podcast Who Did What Now, the popular playground game where people use their hands to mimic one of the options, has links to sex.
“So Rock, Paper, Scissors started out as a sex game,” host Katie said in a video posted to the show’s TikTok account @whodidwhatnowpod.
She continued to explain that technically Rock, Paper, Scissors was originally called Sansukimi-Ken and known as a Chinese drinking game.
But when the game caught on in Japan in the 17th or 18th century “it became incredibly popular in brothels.”
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Katie went on to explain: “And at these brothels, as part of the service provided, Rock, Paper, Scissors becomes an incredibly important part of foreplay.
“One variation of the game had players remove an item of clothing every time they lost a round.”
The social media user then said that this change of rules “effectively made it strip Rock, Paper, Scissors.”
She later added that it was typical for humans “to create a game and then find a way to make it naughty.”
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This all came as news to Who Did What Now’s 286k social media followers, as they said they had never heard it before.
One person wrote: “Well, I didn’t see that coming!”
A second TikTok user added: “Fascinating.”
While a third person typed: “Did not know that!” alongside a shocked emoji face.
Others said that every day is a school day as they took in the information.
One variation of the game had players remove an item of clothing every time they lost a round
One said: “I learned this today.”
A second person agreed, as they wrote: “All my life I thought it was an innocent way to settle a disagreement.”
As a third summed up a lot of people’s thoughts when they simply stated: “Say what now?!”
Meanwhile, plenty of people tagged family and friends in the comment section so they could spread the word about the fact they’d heard.
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