Gi-hun's squad forms with army ranks
Sang-woo and Ali rejoin Gi-hun, Ali thanks him for the bus fare, and the group recruits Il-nam as the old major of their training-camp team.
Seong Gi-hun's Best Moments
Every Squid Game moment featuring Seong Gi-hun, in story order. Played by Lee Jung-jae.
162 moments · 4h 48m · by Favseen
Moments 31–60 of 162
- 31
- 32
Lunchbox memories and a list of childhood games
Over cold lunch boxes Gi-hun and Il-nam reminisce about briquette stoves, then rattle off every old kids' game Ali has never heard of.
- 33
Chocolate milk and Sang-woo's untouched breakfast
Il-nam asks for chocolate milk and guesses Gi-hun was spanked as a boy; across the table Sang-woo hands Ali his meal and Gi-hun follows suit.
- 34
The giant playground and four shapes on the wall
Players enter an oversized playground and are told to pick circle, triangle, star or umbrella; Sae-byeok tells Deok-su the workers were heating sugar.
- 35
Sang-woo's advice: don't keep your eggs in one basket
With no idea what the game is, Sang-woo argues the team should split across the shapes; Ali and Gi-hun vouch for the SNU prodigy.
- 36
Gi-hun chooses the umbrella
Ali takes the circle he calls Dayira, Gi-hun picks the umbrella for a childhood memory, and Sang-woo stops short of saying what he wanted to.
- 37
The second game is revealed: sugar honeycombs
Tins are opened to show honeycomb candy; the rules give ten minutes to cut out the chosen shape without cracking it, and Gi-hun knows he is done for.
- 38
Gi-hun licks the umbrella free
Minutes from elimination, Gi-hun realises the thin outline will melt first and licks the honeycomb from the back until Player 456 passes.
- 39
Sang-woo thanks Gi-hun as the team regroups after Dalgona
Sang-woo admits Gi-hun got him through the honeycomb round, Ali and Il-nam rejoin, and the announcer tallies 79 dead and a 34.8 billion won pot.
- 40
Gi-hun begs the guards after a man is killed in the dorm
Gi-hun shouts at the silent masked guards that a player was just murdered, and the only reply is an elimination announcement.
- 41
Sae-byeok says she trusts no one; Gi-hun tells her why she really doesn't
Gi-hun invites the pickpocket to shelter with his group tonight. She refuses on principle and he answers with a line about having nobody else.
- 42
Lights-out countdown and the dormitory riot
The lights go out on a countdown and the dorm erupts in a brawl. Gi-hun and Sang-woo fight back to back, then realise Il-nam is missing.
- 43
Gi-hun defends Sae-byeok and Il-nam's cry stops the riot
Gi-hun faces down Deok-su to protect his teammate, then Il-nam climbs up and screams that everyone will die, and the masked soldiers finally intervene.
- 44
The team trades names and Il-nam cannot remember his
Gi-hun, Ali, Sang-woo and Sae-byeok introduce themselves properly; when the old man is asked, he stalls and Gi-hun covers for him.
- 45
Teams of ten: Sang-woo guesses the game and argues for strong men
The third game is announced as a team game and Gi-hun's group debates which playground game it could be and who to recruit in ten minutes.
- 46
Ji-yeong joins Sae-byeok and Mi-nyeo barges onto the weak team
Sae-byeok brings a girl instead of a man, the count stops at nine, and the rejected Mi-nyeo invites herself in as the tenth with a boast.
- 47
Il-nam teaches the team how to win Tug-of-War
Facing an all-male team, the old man lays out his childhood method: a strong leader, alternating sides, rope under the armpits, lean back ten seconds.
- 48
Three steps forward: Sang-woo's gamble on the rope
The team holds for ten seconds, starts losing anyway, and Sang-woo orders everyone to step towards the edge on a count of three.
- 49
Gi-hun's three-steps trick wins the tug of war
Cold open: losing badly, Gi-hun orders the team to step forward on his signal, the rope goes slack and the other side topples.
- 50
The team relives the win: Matrix moves and who said no
Giddy survivors replay the lean-back and the three-steps call, compare it to a bullet-dodging movie, and tease the one who cried about the edge.
- 51
Planning the night: attack first or build a barricade
With lights-out coming, the pastor argues for striking a weak team first, Sae-byeok says she trusts no one, and the team settles on a barricade.
- 52
Gi-hun tells Deok-su he would come for him first
Deok-su sneers at the barricade; Gi-hun calmly says the strongest man is the first target, and a rattled Deok-su calls off the night's attack.
- 53
Gi-hun tells Il-nam about the car-factory strike
Behind the barricade Gi-hun remembers being fired after a decade at the plant, the strike, keeping watch in pairs, and the man who died.
- 54
Sae-byeok: it wasn't for free, pay me back tomorrow
Gi-hun settles the feverish Il-nam, then thanks Sae-byeok for helping; she refuses to make it a gift.
- 55
Sang-woo picks Ali over Gi-hun; Gi-hun gives Il-nam his jacket
Sang-woo quietly chooses Ali as his partner, leaving Gi-hun to step aside and look after the old man instead.
- 56
The odd one out: Gi-hun takes Il-nam, Mi-nyeo is left alone
With an uneven number of players, Gi-hun pairs with the old man; Mi-nyeo screams her credentials, exposes Deok-su's doctor deal, and is dragged off partnerless.
- 57
Il-nam teaches Gi-hun what gganbu means
Holding their bags of marbles, Il-nam explains that a gganbu is the friend you share everything with, and the two seal it with a handshake.
- 58
Gi-hun tries to get Il-nam declared out, then begs him to play
Gi-hun tells a guard the old man has dementia, then explodes that they will both be killed, until Il-nam quietly agrees as long as he stops yelling.
- 59
Which one did you say? Gi-hun exploits Il-nam's memory
After a losing guess, Gi-hun asks the old man to repeat what he said, and Il-nam uncertainly concedes the round.
- 60
Il-nam finds his old house, then asks if tricking a friend makes sense
Il-nam wanders into memories of his wife and son, agrees to bet everything on one last round, and then quietly tells Gi-hun he knows what he has been doing.