Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Janken is "rock, paper, scissors," Japanese-style. The rules are nearly identical to the American (or perhaps world?) game. Two players count ONE, TWO, THREE, GO while pumping their fists. On GO, the players show a fist ("rock"), index and middle fingers extended in a V ("scissors"), or palm flat and facing down ("paper"). The exchange is won as determined by the singsong rules: Scissors cuts Paper! Paper covers Rock! Rock breaks Scissors! The internet is clogged with on-line and stand-alone versions of this game, written in Flash, Java or Javascript, etc. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.