I miss being so bored that you invent such games. I need to pack myself off for a holiday and leave my digital life behind for a few days, maybe where there is a piano and a nice view to paint.
My grandfather, was a chess-meister, not of huge proportions, but well known in our city. Chess was almost like a diseases (he did not taught my father and his brother in the game, knowing the pain and suffering this would bring later in life)... So one thing he did when he was back home from the local chess club, is to play against himself - replaying old moves, or by the book, or something new, just heard. He would also this with other games - like bridge (or similar). He was truly a genius in his own, and I'm sure he had good time, but he understood really well that it was not good habit long term.
Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to get through
if you don't have dice, use a coin, heads beats whatever you choose, tails loses to it. then, quicker if you don't choose, heads you lose, tails you win.
with the coin you don't get ties, but ties you just shoot again so it hardly disturbs the outcome of the game.
If you don't have a dice, you can mentally roll one. Think of a bunch of numbers and add them all together, then add every digit of that number, and so on until you end up with a single digit from 1 to 9. 1, 2 and 3 is rock, 4, 5 and 6 is paper and 7, 8 and 9 is scissors.
For example: 23+42 (or 2+3+4+2 if that's easier for you to do, the result will be the same) = 65 → 6+5 = 11 → 1+1 = 2, rock.
Great to fall asleep, given how boring the game must be. I use that dice system in bed but in a RPG game (1 = "No, and also..."; 2,3,4 = "No"; 5 = "Yes, but..."; 6,7,8 = "Yes"; 9 = "Yes, and also...").
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https://rakuforprediction.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/rock-pape...
Some of the extensions would need polyhedral dices:
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpenDiceRolls/
Some people find comfort this way, sometimes it's the only way to get through
I was not expecting such an elegant way to deal with PvP in an analog action solitaire game, excellent!!
if you don't have dice, use a coin, heads beats whatever you choose, tails loses to it. then, quicker if you don't choose, heads you lose, tails you win.
with the coin you don't get ties, but ties you just shoot again so it hardly disturbs the outcome of the game.
bigger genius.
For example: 23+42 (or 2+3+4+2 if that's easier for you to do, the result will be the same) = 65 → 6+5 = 11 → 1+1 = 2, rock.
Great to fall asleep, given how boring the game must be. I use that dice system in bed but in a RPG game (1 = "No, and also..."; 2,3,4 = "No"; 5 = "Yes, but..."; 6,7,8 = "Yes"; 9 = "Yes, and also...").