We're delighted to announce that the game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" has been reincarnated into a Zen version: "
Moon, Fish, Ocean."
Play online against the Blind Master (a.k.a. your humble server). Every hand combination tells a Zen poem through sign language. Then check out the
book version, which whimsically explores the complete rules, scoring, history, and variations of the game.
We're honored that our game inspired the visual poet
Geof Huth to create a poem-word (or "
pwoermd," to be precise):
moonfishoceanGeof's poem then inspired a Finnish translation, by
Karri Kokko:
kuukalameriGeof explains that "'kuu' is 'moon,' 'kala' is 'fish,' and 'meri' (which appears to be a cognate of the French 'mer') means 'ocean.'"