Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock and more?

Trying to decide who gets the last of dessert we played rock, paper, scissors. This reminded me of the rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock game made popular by The Big Bang Theory. The clip below shows Sheldon explaining the game to Kripke.

 

Here's a blooper clip of his first attempts :)

 

Back to trying the find a nice diagram to simply illustrate the game I came across some interesting results.

There are plenty of shirts printed with the game diagram. Some with just the Vulcan greeting, with a photo of Spock and even cute cartoon illustrates of him. The Sam Kass website even has a merchandise section.

But who would have thought the game was too easy? If you're one of them maybe you could try your hand at rock, paper, scissors, gun, lightening, devil, dragon, water, air, sponge, wolf, tree, human, snake, fire. Phew! I'd like to see someone try and explain this game as well as Sheldon explains RPSLS.

All hail Sam Kass! (and Karen Bryla)