A player wins when they deduce the rule, so consistently pass the scissors in the correct form.
The players sit on chairs in a circle, preferably without a table in the way, and have an object such as an empty plastic drink bottle or even a genuine pair of scissors.
In Finland, a similar game is played under the name Näin räätäli sakset antaa ("This Is How The Tailor Hands The Scissors").
There is a game judge who knows the trick from the start and will watch people when they pass the scissors, telling them "that's right" or "no, that's wrong".
While the show has largely shifted away from trial and error game mechanics, the second season's finale episode was a close variation of Scissors.
Reich, and a rotation of guest performers, repeatedly asked the three players a single question: "Yes or no?"
In this case, the game's secret rule prohibited one of the players, Brennan Lee Mulligan, from scoring points.
[2] This was played for laughs, with the notoriously competitive Mulligan growing visibly frustrated and ultimately delivering an impassioned monologue about the unfairness of the premise.