rock paper scissors

[kyospants]

how do you play japanese rock paper scissors? im sure the rules are the same but i wanna know what youre supposed to say when you do it. thanks

[aKuMu]

じゃん　けん　ぽん
and then you say あっち見てホイ or someting like that^^

[zengargoyle]

more than you want to know about jankenpon. i've also seen played in manga where it's ジャン　ケン　ポイ and they throw on the ポイ.

[Kates]

From what I observed in junior highs (where Janken was used often as we played games), the kids say "jan ken PON" and throw on "pon," as zengargoyle mentioned. And they are lightning-fast about it. o_O I was still figuring out who won when they'd move on to the next kid to play with.

"Acchi muide hoi" (is that right...? That's what it sounded like) was an added 'variant' on the basic Janken game. Let's say you are playing with a friend and your friend loses. You would point your finger at his nose and say "acchi muide HOI!" ("look this way, HEY") and fling your finger in one of four directions on the HOI (up, down, left, right). Your friend is supposed to turn his head in one of the four directions when you say HOI. If your friend looks in the same direction as you ended up pointing, you win and get to "dekko pin" (again, is that right..?) him on the forehead (which is a hard flick with your finger). If you lose, well... maybe you get dekko pin'd... I forget.

I also saw a few games of multiple-person Janken and I still haven't figured out how kids were eliminated during those games.... o_o

[flammable hippo]

I play this all the time with a bunch of little kids who are also learning Japanese along with my Japanese teacher.

It's supposed to go:
じゃん　けん　ぽん　and you throw down on ぽん. If both throw down the same thing, you do it again, but this time you say あいこ　でしょ！And on でしょ　you throw down again. If both players tie this time you repeat and say the second line over again until someone finally wins.

So in short, its : じゃんけんぽん！あいこでしょ！

I'm pretty sure that "あっち見てホイ and あっちむいでホイ are wrong but they cold just be regional variations

[ashitaka]

zengargoyle wrote:
more than you want to know about jankenpon. i've also seen played in manga where it's ジャン　ケン　ポイ and they throw on the ポイ.

Why would someone ever spend the time to translat that!?!?!?!?!?
Yea now i can play the game in different languages and country styles..... :@
Who wants to play Spock Lizard Fly dynamite Flowerbed with me?

[Harisenbon]

flammable hippo wrote:
I'm pretty sure that "あっち見てホイ and あっちむいでホイ are wrong but they cold just be regional variations

If by regional you mean Japan, then yes, it is regional.

it's あっち向いてほい！ Sometimes with a pause before the ほい to trick the other person into looking before you point.

It is not necessary for Janken in general, but is often used when playing Janken as a game, rather than as a determining method (because it's slow).

As for multiplayer Janken, if you have two types (i.e, rock and scissors) the winners stay on, and the losers leave. If all three types (rock, paper, scissors) are present, it's a do-over.

No, I didn't spend 3 years in a Junior High and Elementary School. Why do you ask? :/

[keatonatron]

Kates wrote:
"jan ken PON"

Jan Ken Poi

"Acchi muide hoi" (is that right...? That's what it sounded like)

If it is what Akumu wrote, it's "Acchi mite hoi". If it comes from 向く and not 見る (which would make sense) then it would be "Acchi muite hoi"

[Rounin T]

The way I learned it:

1. 「最初はグー」　On グー, everyone throws グー (the rock). Mostly to get the rhythm down.

2. 「じゃん、けん、ぽん」 On ぽん, throw グー、パー、or チョキ, whichever one you like. If there's no winner, then

「あいこでしょ」 On しょ, throw again. If still no winner, repeat.

3. Winner does the whole 「あっちむいてほい」 thing mentioned above to the loser.

[kuroi]

There is a Mini Moni (Japanese Pop Group) song called "Janken Pyon"
Basically based on that game.

^^ "Shiroi agete, aka agete"

[paul_b]

keatonatron wrote:

Kates wrote:
"jan ken PON"

Jan Ken Poi

Maybe _somewhere_ your 'correction' is right but it's always been じゃんけんぽん that I've heard.　(Mr search engine says PON by about 500 to 1).

[keatonatron]

I thought her post was based on Zen's post, where he wrote ポイ

[AJBryant]

For those who don't know, "ポイ" is slang for "throw" (as in "toss, chuck, throw"). Perhaps because of *that* some people say ポイ instead of the correct word because in their mind, they're "throwing down" so to speak.

Heck, think of all the people who, in English, write "populous" when they mean "populace" or "would of" instead of "would have" and you'll probably understand people in Japan getting "ぽん" wrong.


Tony

[Mike Cash]

AJBryant wrote:
For those who don't know, "ポイ" is slang for "throw" (as in "toss, chuck, throw"). Perhaps because of *that* some people say ポイ instead of the correct word because in their mind, they're "throwing down" so to speak.

Heck, think of all the people who, in English, write "populous" when they mean "populace" or "would of" instead of "would have" and you'll probably understand people in Japan getting "ぽん" wrong.


Tony

I'm getting sick of hearing people say "would have" when they mean "had".

ex:
"If I would have seen you I would have run." instead of "If I had seen you I would have run."

"If I would have studied more I wouldn't be such a dumbass today." instead of "If I had studied more I wouldn't be such a dumbass today."

The longer I am out of the U.S. the more I notice the total decline of English ability among Americans when I chance to hear them.

[AJBryant]

I'm getting sick of hearing people say "would have" when they mean "had"

I hear you. But the FIRST step is to get them to stop saying "would of".

Baby steps. Y'know. When you're working with knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing neanderthals (or just the uneducated), you have to take really small steps.

One of the things that kills me is the misuse of "whenever" to mean "when" in relating to a specific event in the past. Or "Had went" or "had ran" -- people trying to form a simple past perfect and butchering it.

The thing is, (1) they don't teach grammar anymore here, and (2) no one cares about it because if 2+2=5 is officially 'a nice try', then something like "had run" is officially 'good enough.'

Weep for the language, my friend. Weep for its death.

Tony