In 2005, an RPS win secured auction house Christie’s a 10 million deal.Could this be why we also call this game Jack-en-Poy? Was it the Japanese who brought to the Philippines this game or the Chinese who has traded with our ancestors way before the Japanese and the Europeans came?
In 18 th century Japan it was called Jan-ken-pon.
The game dates back to the days of the Chinese Han Dynasty(206 BCE – 220 CE), and was called The Gestures. The new insights I learned about the game surprised me: That caught my curiosity so I did a bit of research on the subject. I chanced upon an article which talked about the game, including real tips at how to win it. I thought rock-paper-scissors is one of our indigenous games and only us Pinoys play it. Most of the time, it is a best of three (2/3) game the first to win two games, wins.Ī Bato bato Pik Society and World Championships! Tossing same gestures results in a tie, and you have to try again. Rock wins over scissors scissors wins over paper and, paper wins over rock. You win, lose or draw depending on what gesture you used versus your opponent. Scissors – index and middle fingers extended. The players make the gesture after uttering the last word of the chant. Fists should not touch each other the motion being performed entirely up and down in the air in front of each other. The fists come down each time a word is said. The opposing players move their fists up and down three times while shouting a pre-agreed chant. This is a game where two opponents toss out hand gestures. In English, they call it Rock-Paper-Scissors or RPS for short. During my childhood days, we call it sambara, although we also call it jack–en-poy because of the chant we use while playing it. It is a simple game with many names and variations. And of course, we broke their streak when we pitted them against one another! They claimed there is a secret behind their winning streak. I had three grade school classmates who were very good at winning the Rock-Paper Scissors game: Henry Lovitos, Reynaldo Idea and James Asahan. When we were kids, this is the game we played to determine who will go first inside a dark room or who will get the last piece of candy. When playing team sports (like tigso, softball, or basketball), we used it to group ourselves into opposing teams (one group consists of all the losers and the other group, all the winners).
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