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If you call it Rock-Paper-Scissors it still follows logically:

Rock loses to Paper loses to Scissors





Why would you want to describe it as "loses to" rather than "beats"? People want to win, not lose.

Or any other ordering

Yes, but I was specifically choosing the one that is by far the most popular one; at least in American English.



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