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Complete guide to all the games in Squid Game Korean drama on Netflix

by Shrabani Panda
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Complete guide to all the games in Squid Game Korean drama on Netflix

Squid Game Season 1 dropped on Netflix in 2021, garnering a lot of attention across the globe for its focus on Korean children’s games but intense bloodshed for the grand cash prize. The highly anticipated Squid Game Season 2 recently premiered on the platform.

The second installment of the hit Korean drama is becoming a phenomenon in India. Squid Game Season 2 is the most popular international series in 2024, defeating The Boys S4, Emily in Paris S4, Bridgerton S3, The Penguin, Citadel:Diana, and others.

Both Squid Game Season 1 and 2 are centered on a list of prominent Korean children’s games. But the players do not seem to enjoy that much. Squid Game is a competition that promises fortune, but deals in pain, manipulation and death.

List of games in Squid Game Season 1

1. Ddakji

This is the game that started it all. Before officially entering the Squid Game arena, our protagonist Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) is asked by a mysterious Recruiter (Gong Yoo) to compete in the childhood game Ddakji.

In Ddakji, there are a couple of players – each one holding a folded square piece of paper (or a Ddakji). Once one player’s paper is on the ground, the other player is required to fling theirs at it to flip the opposing piece of paper.

2. Red Light, Green Light

Red Light, Green Light is the first game 456 players play after entering the Squid Game arena. Here, players need to move ahead in the direction of a doll Young-hee before them after she says ‘Green Light’.

They must stop as ‘Red Light’ is announced. Players seen moving (even a little bit) during Red Light are eliminated. Participants must get across the field into safety in five minutes, in order to not get eliminated. 255 are shot dead in this scene as they ‘moved’.

Squid Game 2 trailer 

3. Dalgona

This delicious experience turns into a terrifying and deadly scene in Squid Game Season 1. In Episode 3, the players remaining after the first game are first asked to pick a shape: circle, triangle, star and umbrella.

Next, players are given a Dalgona cookie. Imagine a honeycomb sugar confection that has the impression of their chosen shape in its centre. In 10 minutes, players need to remove the shape from their cookie. If they break or crack the shape, they face elimination.

4. Tug-of-ar

79 players are eliminated in the earlier Dalgona game. The remaining ones next face the Tug-of-ar. Many assumed in the beginning that physical strength decides the champion here. But Player 1 (possibly, the oldest of them all) shares interesting strategies to finish strong.

In terms of the rules, players are asked to separate into teams of ten. During each round, 2 teams compete against each other on 2 tall platforms. They are told to pull a rope in their direction until their opponents fall off the platform. Only 40 players stay alive.

5. Marbles

If any of the previous games didn’t get you emotional, this one is bound to do the trick. In Episode 6 of Squid Game Season 1, the remaining players play ‘Marbles’. The players are initially asked to find a partner. A partner is someone you play alongside, right?

Not here. Members of each pair compete against each other in a marble game of their choosing. Each player has 10 marbles. In a matter of 30 minutes, players need to take their opponent’s 10 marbles to emerge victorious and stay safe (literally). 17 players are left.

Squid Game star Park Sung-hoon drops out?

6. Glass Bridge

The previous games could be finished through intelligence or cunningness. But this particular game is a ‘game of chance’ – at least 90% of it, if you carry years-long experience at a glass manufacturer. Terrifying, right?

Players need to move on 2 seemingly identical midair glass bridges. There are 18 parallel stepping stones. On one side, the stepping stone is tempered glass (can easily hold 2 people) and, on the other side, normal breakable glass. The runtime is 16 minutes.

7. Squid Game: The Endgame?

Is this the Endgame? It could have been true if Squid Game Season 2 had not arrived. Just a couple of players are left in this season’s final game. Our protagonist Gi-hun and his childhood friend. It is gonna be an emotional scene throughout.

Squid Game gets its name from the court it is played upon. This court is shaped like a squid. There are 2 sides here: offense and defence. If someone is pushed out of the court, they are eliminated. A player needs to get to the top of the squid to emerge victorious.

List of games in Squid Game Season 2

By the end of the first season of Squid Game, Player 456 aka Gi-hun is clearly frustrated and utterly unhappy. He takes the grand prize amounting to millions of dollars. But he is seeking a significant change and returns for the same in the second installment.

Our protagonist is adamant about ending the brutal game once and for all. He is looking to punish the Front Man, the mastermind behind them, and save as many lives as possible. Is he going to succeed? Stream Squid Game Season 2 on Netflix, if you haven’t already.

1. Bread and Lottery

In the beginning of the second installment, you can find Gi-hun’s hired help looking for the infamous Recruiter (played by Gong Yoo). They also stumble upon an incredibly simple but cruel game. It’s the ‘Bread and Lottery’.

The Recruiter purchases 100 buns and 100 scratch-off lottery tickets. He then takes these items to a park and asks 100 unhoused people to make their choices. If someone chooses the bread, they can eat it. But it someone chooses the lottery, things get tricky.

People picking up the scratch-off ticket get a coin. But they must return the coin once they have scratched the lottery ticket and found the result. A lot of bread is left at the end of the game. The Recruiter stomps all over the food to punish people choosing to gamble.

2. Rock, Paper, Scissor, Minus One

In Episode 1 of Squid Game Season 2, you can find the Recruiter giving a crash course in a game of chance to some of Gi-hun’s hired employees. This game is about participants forming a shape using each hand and taking one back in the end.

The game is decided by the remaining hands. The shapes are the traditional Rock, Paper and Scissor. Naturally, the Recruiter has something up his sleeves. There is a penalty for the loser. That is an added game of Russian Roulette.

This entire Russian Roulette game is based on the thought that there is only a one in six chance of dying – at least, the Recruiter is using this premise to sell his game. Later on, you can see Gong Yoo and Lee Jung-jae meeting for the first time in Season 2.

3. Russian Roulette

For the participants, the Recruiter resets the gun barrel, offering each player a five in six chance of not dying every time. But as he meets Gi-hun, he changes the game to make it more serious but so much more interesting.

For Gi-hun, the Recruiter spins the cylinder of a gun’s barrel once. Then, he and the protagonist take turns shooting the gun at themselves. The barrel is not reset again. That means the likelihood of someone actually shooting themselves increases each time.

4. Red Light, Green Light

The deadly doll Young-hee is back. Similar to Season 1, if you move on Red Light, you are eliminated (literally). Yet, this time, one player has actually played the game before. So in Episode 3, he urges all players to not move and stay frozen.

5. The Six-Legged-Pentathalon

The cunning minds behind Squid Game see all. They understand that one of the players in this latest edition has played the games before and emerged victorious, too. So the puppet masters decide to bring a major change.

Gi-hun had been expecting to play Dalgona. But he finds himself in a Six-Legged-Pentathalon arena instead. Each team consists of five players. This is basically a six-legged relay race. The runtime for this game is just five minutes.

During that time, each player must complete a different mini-game. The entire team can move on to the next segment only after a player has finished the task at hand. The mini-games here are Ddakji, Flying Stone, Gong-gi, Spinning Top and Jegi.

Ddakji

In Ddakji, there are a couple of players – each one holding a folded square piece of paper (or a Ddakji). Once one player’s paper is on the ground, the other player is required to fling theirs at it to flip the opposing piece of paper.

Flying Stone

In this mini-game, a player is required to go and stand behind a line and try to hurl their stone at another one to knock it over. The frustrating part here is if a player misses their attempt, the entire team of five need to pick up the stone hurled and restart.

Gong-gi

This particular mini-game in Squid Game Season 2 is going viral on social media. Netizens are flaunting their Gong-gi skills on the internet. You need to hurl five die in the air and catch them, in increasingly complicated stages.

Spinning Top

For the Spinning Top, a player must put a cord around a top, hold the complete item and hurl the top in such a manner that it makes it spin. If a player doesn’t get it right in the first attempt, the entire team needs to go to the place the top has landed and restart.

Jegi

Jegi might look relatively simple but it is a tricky children’s game, too. For this mini-game, players are required to kick a jegi – referred to an item looking similar to a badminton shuttlecock – using their feet or ankles 5 times in a series. Difficult?

6. Mingle

Do you remember the hit ‘Dunggulge Dunggulge’ song from Squid Game Season 2. It is stuck in my mind like nothing else. Players are placed on a spinning circular carousel that is surrounded by colourful doors.

Once the carousel stops, a number is announced. Players must assemble in a group consisting of that exact number and go through one of the doors together. If a player is not grouped in a room as per the requested number, they are eliminated.

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