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Kiez-Candle-Shisha

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Kiez-Candle-Shisha* is a site-specific variation of the game Rock-Paper-Scissors, and was developed 2015 in Hamburg.

The initial situation is always the same: You are new in a city and want to explore the new city, make experiences which you cannot make where you come from. But where do you go? The answer in Hamburg is always the same: Check out Reeperbahn in the so-called “kiez” of St. Pauli. Go for a “candle light dinner” in a nice restaurant. Or, if you look somehow Arabic/Muslim and hence are not allowed to drink alcohol, a “shisha bar”?

All three options actually prove to be rather unsatisfactory, especially for newcomers who have little money to spend for leisure activities and who feel uneasy in the red-lights districts, in supposedly cosy and romantic, and yet quite dark restaurants (with the obligatory candle or tea light on the table) and who do not want to get high on/get dizzy on tobacco with fruit flavor. Maybe this is the reason why newcomers are rarely seen in the city: because they stay at home in the camps playing Kiez-Candle-Shisha.

 

Study of Three Hands – A. Duerer (c.1490).

Study of Three Hands – A. Duerer (c.1490).

*Kiez-Candle-Shisha is a hand game usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These shapes are “kiez” (a fist with the thumb between middlefingers), “candle” (extended index finger), and “shisha” (open hand with index finger and thumb together). The game has only three possible outcomes other than a tie: a player who decides to play kiez will beat another player who has chosen shisha (“kiez crushes shisha”) but will lose to one who has played candle (“candle burns kiez”); a play of candle will lose to a play of shisha (“shisha bubbles candle”). If both players throw the same shape, the game is tied and is usually immediately replayed to break the tie. The game can be used to help in taking a decision (i.e. where to go). It requires no equipment and can be applied to different situations.

Game play: The players usually count aloud to 3, or speak the name of the game (e.g. ” Kiez! Candle! Shisha!”), each time either raising one hand in a fist and swinging it down on the count or holding it behind. On the third count, the players change their hands into one of three gestures, which they then “throw” by extending it towards their opponent.

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