How to play The Scissor Game

Learn the rules to the Parlor game The Scissor Game quickly and concisely - This visually rich video has no distractions, just the rules.Show more

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RULES:

You can only play this game with a group of people once because the object of the game is to figure out how to play. Everyone sits in a circle and you take a pair of scissors and open or close them and declare either “the scissors are open” or “the scissors are closed”. You pass the scissors to another person and ask them, “Are the scissors open or closed?” They answer and you tell them if they are correct or not.

The trick to the game, to determine whether or not they are correct, has to do with the person holding the scissors’ leg position. If their legs (or ankles) are crossed in any way, the scissors are open (you remember this because the scissors are crossing each other). If their legs or ankles aren’t crossed, then the scissors are closed.

So as the scissors are passed around it doesn’t matter what the scissors look like, it all has to do with the person holding the scissors’ leg position.