
For the first ten seconds of the game, the team should lean back as far as they can and hold their positions this way. Both feet should be facing forward, and the rope should be held in their armpits. At the end of the rope, you need someone “strong and dependable, like the anchor of a ship.” Further, the team should be arranged so that each player in the row is on the opposite side of the rope than the ones behind and in front of them. A good leader is needed at the front to focus on how the other team is doing. They’re by far the weaker of the two teams playing, but wise, old Player 001 advises that Tug of War is about more than raw strength, but strategy as well. Those with the strongest team members keep winning, until Gi-hun's team is up. Unfortunately, the center here is a drop of about a thousand feet. Two teams pull on either side of a rope, until one team is pulled across the center. The third game of the show is the old-fashioned game of tug of war. This game might have ranked higher on the list, had it actually been played out according to its rules. But Sang-woo stabs himself in the neck and asks Gi-hun to use the prize money to help his mother. However, he has a change of heart when he realizes Sang-woo is about to be shot by one of the game-runners, and asks that they both be allowed out of the game. Gi-hun beats Sang-woo into submission, and then makes his way to the squid’s head.

But soon thereafter, the game devolves into a straight-up knife fight between the two players. Gi-hun begins the game according to the rules, hopping on one foot along the outside of the squid. A coin toss at the beginning winds up with Gi-hun on offense and Sang-woo on defense. Once you tap the squid’s head, you win and yell out, ‘Victory.’Īt this point in the show, only two players are left: Gi-hun and Sang-woo. But if someone on the defense manages to push you outside the squid’s boundary, you die. In order to win, the attackers must tap the small closed off space on the squid’s head with their foot. We called that ‘inspector royale.’ When we were ready for the final battle, the attackers gathered at the entrance to the squid. But if an attacker cuts through the waist of the squid past the defense, they are given the freedom to use both feet. Once the game starts, the defense can run around on two feet in bounds, while the offense outside the lines are only allowed to hop on one foot. Children are divided into two groups, the offense and the defense.

In my town, we had a game called the “Squid Game.” We called it that because it’s played in a court shaped like a squid. It’s described by the Front Man as follows: The final game in the show is … wait for it… Squid Game! This was, apparently, a popular Korean childrens’ game during the 1970’s and 1980’s. Here’s where things really start to get interesting. Unfortunately, his marble knocks Deok-Su’s marble into the hole instead. Neither accomplishes the feat of actually landing a marble into said hole until the very end, when the other player seems to throw a winning shot. Deok-Su ( Paul Nakauchi) plays a game against his opponent in which whoever gets the most marbles near or in a dug-out hole wins. Sang-woo spins a deceitful yarn, and replaces the marbles in Ali’s sack with rocks, winning the game by being a bad person. Sae-byeok and Ga-yeong play another simple betting game, but at the end, Ga-yeong says she has less to live for than Sae-byeok, and allows her to win on principle. He reveals that he knew he was being played the whole time, but gives Gi-hun his last marble anyway. Gi-hun plays a betting game against Player 001 for each marble, uncharacteristically using Player 001's failing memory to win, until Player 001 reveals he has one marble left in his pocket.

Seong Gi-hun ( Jung-jae Lee) is paired with Player 001 (Y eong-su Oh), Sang-woo ( Stephen Foo) is paired with Ali ( Anupam Tripathi), and Kang Sae-byeok ( Hoyeon Jung) is paired with Ga-yeong ( Reagan To). The one who loses all their marbles, no pun intended, loses the game and gets shot. Players were made to pair up in twos, given a sack of marbles, and told to play any game they wished with them. The fourth game in the competition is relatively boring. So strap in, because we’re taking a deep dive into the games of Squid Game. This is based on fun, deadliness, gore, and pure entertainment value. There will be more about Squid Game on Collider, but we’re going to kick things off with a ranking of the individual games the players on the show were forced to engage in.

Well, who would have thought we’d be here, discussing some crazy Netflix show about a bunch of people playing deadly kids' games that came out of nowhere and took the world by storm? But here we are, and anyone who’s seen Squid Game knows just how fun and sick and addictive the show is.
