By popular demand (no really, half a dozen requests or more!), I give you the hand shapes and rules for Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock-Friends-Pie:
Each player forms a fist, and swings it seven times swiftly, to the spoken count of “Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock-Friends-Pie”. After the final count, each player forms one of the following shapes with the same hand, and extends it towards her opponent.
Rock, Paper, Scissors: The classics. “Rock” is a clenched fist, “Paper” is an open hand with all fingers extended together, “Scissors” has index and middle finger extended and separated, with the other fingers held in the palm of the hand.
Lizard, Spock: Newer additions, invented by Sam Kass. “Lizard” has fingers extended together, straight, with the thumb brought up to touch the tips of the fingers. “Spock” is an open hand with index and middle fingers extended together, and ring and pinky fingers extended together, with a V-shaped gap between the middle and ring fingers.
Friends, Pie: The newest additions of which I am aware, invented by a sleep-deprived dancer with the encouragement of a pirate who has never had banoffi! “Friends” has the index and middle fingers extended, with the middle finger crossed over the index finger, and the other fingers held in the palm of the hand. “Pie” is a circle made with four fingers touching the thumb.
The precedence rules are as follows:
Rock:
+ Crushes scissors
+ Crushes lizard
+ Crushes friends
- Is covered by paper
- Is vaporized by Spock
- Is made sticky by pie
Paper:
+ Covers rock
+ Disproves Spock
+ Cuts friends
- Is cut by scissors
- Is eaten by lizard
- Is made messy by pie
Scissors:
+ Cut paper
+ Decapitate lizard
+ Stab friends
- Are crushed by rock
- Are crushed by Spock
- Are gummed up by pie
Lizard:
+ Eats paper
+ Poisons Spock
+ Eats pie
- Is decapitated by scissors
- Is crushed by rock
- Is tamed by friends
Spock:
+ Crushes scissors
+ Vaporizes rock
+ Eats pie
- Is disproven by paper
- Is poisoned by lizard
- Is confused by friends
Friends:
+ Eat pie
+ Confuse Spock
+ Tame lizard
- Are stabbed with scissors
- Are crushed by rock
- Are cut with paper
Pie:
+ Messes up paper
+ Gums up scissors
+ Makes rock icky-sticky!
- Is eaten by lizard
- Is eaten by Spock
- Is eaten by friends
Have fun!