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Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

April 5, 2022From the book Math Games with Bad Drawings

The full diagram of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock: each of five throws beats two others and loses to two.

Transcript

[Diagram: five hands, ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, LIZARD, SPOCK, with arrows: scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, rock smashes scissors]

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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