Before rock paper scissors settled into its modern form, which three creatures did Japan's oldest hand game use?

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Frog, slug and snake, each one beating the next Japan's oldest hand game, mushi-ken, pitted a frog, a slug and a snake against each other long before rock paper scissors. Japan's oldest hand game, mushi-ken, pitted frog against slug against snake. It came from China, where the slug was originally a centipede, lost in translation. Rock paper scissors took shape in 19th-century Japan, and 1927 France called it a Japanese game.

Before rock paper scissors settled into its modern form, which three creatures did Japan's oldest hand game use?

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