Chase from Jacksonville, Florida, grew up in Sacramento, California, where kids played Rochambeau instead of rock, paper, scissors. Why the difference in names? Nobody knows. Folklorists call this a choosing game, and while the hand-game itself likely spread when Europeans adapted a Japanese game called jan-ken-pon, the Rochambeau connection remains unexplained. There’s an even older […]
Why Is the Choosing Game Sometimes Called “Rochambeau”?
