The masked host's welcome: six games, every debt read aloud
The staff explain the masks, read out Sang-woo's investment losses and other players' debts, and offer one last chance to leave their old lives.
Game Guide
Every Squid Game moment featuring Game Guide, in story order. Played by Jeon Young-soo.
14 moments · 28 min
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.
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.
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.
Tug-of-War revealed and the first team falls
The game is announced, Teams One and Seven are drawn, and the losing side is dropped from the tower before the ten names are read out.
The rules land: take all ten marbles from your partner
The announcement reveals that partners must play each other for all ten marbles, and the pairs realise what winning means for the loser.
Only 110 dead: the hall explodes at a 78 million share
The announcer reveals 110 eliminated and 20.1 billion in the bank; players insist more died and call the payout a joke before the vote opens.
'One more game' chant wins the vote 139 to 116
Someone shouts that these are kids' games and half the players survived; the hall chants for one more game and the majority carries it.
Mingle is announced and the platform starts to spin
The third game is revealed; Gi-hun's team sets a plan for groups of four, two or more, swears to stay calm, and the carousel song begins.
The vote roll call: O gang celebrates, X side counts down
Players vote from highest number down; the O side cheers each win, Geum-ja warns Yong-sik not to repeat his stunt, and Min-su is pressured.
Yong-sik changes his vote and Geum-ja cheers her son
Player 015 switches to tie it up, then Yong-sik presses X just as his mother promised he would, putting the X side one ahead.
Player 001 casts the last vote and the result is a tie
Jung-bae keeps trying to tell Gi-hun what he saw Young-il do in their room, and Young-il's final ballot leaves the vote split 50/50.
The fourth game revealed: deadly hide-and-seek
Players learn the blue team gets keys and the red team must find and kill them, then the red team is handed knives.
The fifth game revealed: Jump Rope over a gap
Players face a broken bridge and a giant rotating rope, and a doll chants a nursery rhyme as the game begins.