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Who Invented Rock, Paper, Scissors and What's the Best Way to Win Consistently? (2019x265)

: 01, 2019

The first 100 people to go to http://blinkist’→Some of our favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0XuDegDqP10d4vrztQ0fVzNnTiQBEAA →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: The Curious Case of Famed Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's Body https://youtu.be/Y4cGOEHU0iI The Curious Case of the "Law of the Tongue" https://youtu.be/jvycCQCqI7A In this video: Hand based games have been around seemingly as long as humans have been humaning. As to the exact genesis of Rock, Paper, Scissors, however, this appears to originate in hand games from China, supposedly going back about two thousand years, though primary documented evidence of this is scant. That said, the trail gets much more clear starting around the 17th century which saw some of these games having migrated over to Japan and explicit references to them in surviving text. One of those games, in turn, spread from Japan throughout the world in surprisingly recent times. We are, of course, referring to Rock, Paper, Scissors. Want the text version?: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/09/murky-history-rock-paper-scissors/ Sources: http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23932 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29scis.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Donatien_de_Vimeur,_comte_de_Rochambeau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors http://books.google.com/books?id=-ba-bHdskMAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=.+%22Some+Thoughts+on+the+Ken+Game+in+Japan:+From+the+Viewpoint+of+Comparative+Civilization+Studies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KpFtU8mMKcOBogTm-oDYCw&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.videojug.com/interview/the-history-of-rock