I kept seeing rock paper scissors written up as a beginner exercise and wanted to raise the bar. Five throws is a genuinely harder problem: ten outcomes instead of three, and every one of them has its own verb.

Pick one and find out.

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All ten of them

  • rock crushes scissors
  • rock crushes lizard
  • paper covers rock
  • paper disproves spock
  • scissors cuts paper
  • scissors decapitates lizard
  • lizard poisons spock
  • lizard eats paper
  • spock smashes scissors
  • spock vaporizes rock