These days, if you take a stroll through the virtual halls of the internet, you’ll undoubtedly run into some memes, videos, and quotations regarding the Netflix Korean smash series Squid Game. The Squid Game has been the streamer’s biggest hit, garnering over 100 million views in the first month of its debut.
As a result, people are talking about it all around the world, debating hypotheses and, of course, remembering some of their favorite video games from their youth. If you haven’t seen it (or you’ve been living under a rock), the show centers on a group of 400+ people who choose to take part in a hazardous competition where they could die or become extremely wealthy.
They are all shocked to learn that each round of the Squid Game is a recreation of a kid’s game, but with real-world consequences.
What are those games, then, and how are they listed? Let’s examine them by keeping reading.
What Are the Six Games in Squid Game?
1. Red Light, Green Light
Children all throughout the world like playing the first Squid Game game. It’s the kind of game that gets better the more players there are. In the game Red Light, Green Light, a predetermined area is established, and all players are free to move while one player (the leader) stands at one end with their back to the other players. Everyone is free to move when the lone player cries “red light, green light, one two three.” However, when they reach “three,” everyone must freeze. If someone is seen moving, they must stop immediately or return to the beginning.
The rules of the game vary, but the objective is to get from point A to point B without being “seen.” Getting past the leader when they have their back is, for the most part, the final objective. In others, you have to get close enough to the leader’s tree to touch it without moving while doing so.
When the leader’s head is directed towards a large tree in Squid Game, players are given the ability to move. She chants “the Hibiscus flower has bloomed,” which is what Korean children say in place of “red light, green light,” when she isn’t paying attention. The players can approach her while she is chanting. You can’t trick her since her eyes contain motion detectors; when she stops and turns, anyone who moves gets shot to death.
2.Sugar Honeycombs
Players find Sugar Honeycombs to be one of the most challenging games in Squid Games since they are unable to rely on their physical prowess, cunning, or exploit other players. Patience is the secret to surviving Round 2. and, it transpires a lot of saliva.
Each participant in this game receives a cylinder-shaped tin that may be opened to reveal a sugar honeycomb with one of four possible forms modeled into it: a circle, triangle, star, or umbrella. The participants are given a needle and only the task of carving out the shapes; if they fail to do so without destroying the design, they will be murdered. Isn’t that easy?
The sugar honeycomb can shatter into pieces if you aren’t careful because it is so delicate. Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) learns that wetting the sugar honeycombs is the best way to not break them since they get softer and it is simpler to carve out the shapes without breaking them, whereas most players use the needles to create tiny incisions on the edges of each shape (which takes forever).
3. Tug of War
There are ways to win even if you don’t have bulking members in your group, such as waiting for the opponents to get tired before using all your strength, placing team members on different sides of the rope, and using your full body weight to your advantage, as opposed to just your upper body.
There are strategies for winning even if your team doesn’t contain any bulky individuals. These include waiting until your enemies are tired before exerting all of your strength; dividing your team’s members among the rope’s sides; and using your entire body weight as opposed to just your upper body.
4. Marbles
In Squid Game, this round is used less as a hard entry in the tournament and more as an episode to take a break while getting to know some people better. Ten marbles are placed in each player’s bag, which is then separated into pairs. The objective is to take every marble your opponent owns, but they rapidly realize that one of them will die between themselves and the partner they paired up with (often the person they have become closest to).
Since the couples were selected by the participants themselves, this was the first time they were personally accountable for the death of someone they cared about in the competition, even if everyone knew that the majority of them wouldn’t make it to the end. Players are allowed to exploit any minigame to their advantage, such as guessing how many marbles the other player is holding in their closed fists or tossing marbles into a hole. But once they understand they’ll have to kill a close friend in order to advance to the next round, the players naturally don’t care too much about the strategy they employ.
5.Hopscotch
One of the most well-liked kid’s games, Round 5, has a modification. When playing the traditional version of hopscotch, you move across squares, dodging some of them en route, before returning to your starting position. The opposite is true in Squid Games, where turning back is practically impossible. On a bridge, two glass squares side by side must be jumped through by the players. One glass square is tempered and can support up to two people at once, but the square next to it is brittle, and anyone who jumps on it will fall to their death. Being able to identify which is which in sixteen minutes or less is the “fun” part. Each player in this game has a different advantage, whereas the first player has no advantage either.
The first player in this game has no prior information about which side to select, whereas the final player has observed 15 players make the right or wrong choice, thus making their challenge to cross the bridge in time. This means that no player in this game has an equal advantage.
6.Squid Game
According to The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun), one of the most violent video games that Korean children used to play is featured in the last round of a well-known kid’s game. Two teams compete against one another by drawing on the ground a square, a triangle, and two circles—the same shapes that appear throughout the entire series. The tough part is that you can’t touch any lines and must generally hop on one foot. Naturally, other players will make every effort to trip you up along the road.
The Recruiting Game
The first competition in the series, albeit not a part of the Squid Game, is a game that each of the 464 competitors must complete in order to advance to the main event. This game, which is known as “ddakji” in Korean, is a lot like playing pogs in that you must toss a paper card on top of another in order to turn it over. You will prevail if it does flip over. The first battle in Squid Game is obviously rigged because the recruiter (Gong Yoo) gives a tonne of money if he loses and just smacks the opponent in the face if he wins. This is done to keep potential contestants intrigued and then entice them to the Squid Game, which has bigger stakes.
