“Rock, Scissors, Paper!” Extremely familiar? It’s exactly used in all scenes of our life. It is generally agreed that the restraint relationship between “Rock, Scissors, Paper”. The characteristic of “Fairness + Randomness” make it not only a small game with an active atmosphere, but also a relatively fair way to solve problems. Besides, it is widely used in the critical moment, such as resolving differences, determining order, or determining attribution.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology, the ancient games have not declined in the contemporary society. Instead, these ancient games catch the fast train of science and technology with brand new life. As a fantastic example, “Fist World”, developed by fans of finger-guessing game, is reshaped the traditional playing with blockchain technology. Individuals can compete with global fans of finger-guessing game at anytime and anywhere, so this game has been rapidly popular again.
From the history, finger-guessing game has been popular for a long time. As early as the Han Dynasty, there were records about “Gesture Order” and “Fist Playing”, which has been considered as the origin of finger-guessing games. Later, it became popular in Japan, and spread to the West through Japan, and then quickly became popular in the West. In 1842, the British even created the “Club of Rock, Scissors, Paper” in London, which influenced us until now, attracting a large number of members from all over the world.
Why does “Rock, Scissors, Paper” have such great charm? This interesting phenomenon attracted the attention of scientists. It has become a hot topic in mathematics and psychology.
There are also many related discussions in ancient Chinese philosophy. Lao Tzu’s saying that “all things are born together”, which coincides with the internal logic of “Rock, Scissors, Paper”. The heaven, earth and human of “One from Tao, two from one, three from two, and everything from three” and “Rock, Scissors, Paper” are also similar. This is by no means accidental. A simple finger-guessing game may imply the underlying rules that dominate the smooth operation of the world and balance the internal order of the coexistence of all things in the world.
The rules are also used in military and politics. During the Three Kingdoms Period of China, Lu Su advised Sun Quan: “As Cao becomes strong, we unite with Liu, and Liu becomes strong, we unite with Cao”, which is to keep the relative balance of the three countries. Montesquieu put forward the “Theory of Separation of Powers” in his book on the Spirit of Law – A country’s legislative power, executive power and judicial power should be separated, controlled and exercised by three different organs, so as to reach mutual restriction and balance. These statements reflect the ideas of separation of powers and the balance.
With the popularity of digital encryption technology and the concept of Metaverse, this idea has also been used to the construction of virtual community. From the “Club of Rock, Scissors, Paper”, a group of believers, who enjoy the finger-guessing games, create a finger-guessing platform with transparent rules and absolute fairness. This game uses blockchain technology to have the game rules in the bottom layer. With the technical characteristics, no one can tamper it legally, which can eliminate the possibility of black box operation, and maximize the fairness of the game. At the same time, the Fist World are also applied with the internal logic of the finger-guessing game to the construction of the virtual community, confirms the rights of the game virtual assets through digital encryption technology, and provides technical support for the fair transaction of game equipment and props. The Fist World is committed to building a fair and new order in the virtual community, which is inseparable from the new technology contemporarily and the ancient with simple philosophy contained in the finger-guessing game.
The logic of “Rock, Scissors, Paper” from the ancient is not only applied to the military between countries in the history and the construction of modern political system, but also is used to plan a blueprint for the construction of virtual community, the development of digital technology in the future, and even the evolution of Metaverse. Consequently, it’s a fact that rules of the universe are hidden in “Rock, Scissors, Paper”.