Rock, Paper, Scissors

Today the kids played rock, paper, scissors. Then Florian introduced another variant which is carrot, rabbit, rifle (rabbit eats carrot, carrot stuffs rifle, rifle shoots rabbit). Now that really got Matthias' interest, so he started designing his own game. He called it gun, rabbit, deer. When asked for the rules it got interesting :) First we asked about deer vs gun. That was easy: gun shoots deer. Next was deer vs rabbit. Rabbit wins because it's so small that deer jumps over rabbit and rabbit disappears. Now what about rabbit vs gun? ... Thinking ... Well, then it is a draw. Florian and I both thought that this game actually has some issues since deer wins against no one. Matthias replied that deer wins against elk. Ok, so we added a fourth item to the list and started playing. Who would have thought that we all ended up choosing either gun or rabbit and the game wasn't that much fun after all ... Anyway every game designer started out small I suppose.