Somebody brought this up on Facebook the other day and it occurred to me that I'd yet to mention it on the blog. It's actually one of the more common Myachi games played at the House of Skills, though usually it's utilized in place of a coin flip or something like that.
It's a Myachified version of the classic "Rock, Paper, Scissors", also known as "Roshambo", or, if you're snooty, "Rouchambeau" (and камень-ножницы-бумага if you're Russian... not sure how that's spelled if you're Russian and Snooty).
Essentially you play it the same way as you play regular Rock, Paper, Scissors, except that now there's a Myachi on your hand. You still do the familiar "rock... paper... scissors... shoot!" to start it off and you still throw one of the three hand gestures. Rock still beats scissors, scissors still beat paper and paper still beats rock. The difference, though, is that you also have to catch your Myachi. If you drop, the other player wins regardless of what they threw.
There are really two ways to play, an easy version and a hard version. The degree of difficulty really comes down to how you catch the Myachi in each hand position. I've taken the liberty of making up a little chart to demonstrate the differences:
Now, to be perfectly honest, we've never played with the Rock catch that you see in the hard column above. At the House of Skills we use the hard version of the paper and scissors and the easy version of rock. I honestly only tossed that in so that the chart would be even so I can't say how hard it would be to play with that catch. My guess is really, really hard...
So if you're like me in that (a) you always have a couple of Myachis on you and (b) you use Roshambo to make all the big decisions in your life, try this one out. It gives a new twist to an old game, it makes you really good at those shark-style catches and it gives you a reason to love your longboards.
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