People always talk about how it’s so unlikely and unrealistic that the main character always wins. However, have you ever considered that they’re the main character because they won?
Not really. He won because he's the main character. There are many times when plot armor saved him to create dramatic effect. For example, him falling over in red light green light and Ali holding him in mid-air to prevent him from getting killed. That would never have happened to another people if they were not the main character. In fact, if it wasn't for the contributions of others, Gi Hun should've died. The only game where he depended on himself only was the cookie cutter game, where he used the technique of licking the cookie in order to break the shape out. Every other game, he's depended on other people to help him pass the game, which is fine, but to say that he's the main character because he deserves to is wrong. Logically thinking, Sangwoo should be the main character as he's the best equipped to guess what the games are and pass them and was also willing to become cold and calculating as he betrayed people and pushed them to their deaths.
@@Le_Confuzzlement If one is to win squid game, they must get a bit lucky, and certain unlikely events must happen for them to win. In a show that is trying to depict squid game, it would make sense for them to focus on the eventual lucky winner. So, naturally, the main character ends up getting lucky and getting their ass saved a few times. Why wouldn’t they? That needed to happen for them or anyone else to win. Also, I never said he’s the main character bc he “deserves to be”, I only said he’s the main character because he won. Why would the show not have the winner be the main character? Let’s say someone else got luckier and won. Then it would make more sense for them to be the focal point of the show. Also, in terms of who is or isn’t deserving of being the main character, it all comes down to subjective opinion, so you saying it’s “wrong” to call someone worthy of being the main character is actually wrong in and of itself. That’s like if you told me what your favorite song was and I told you “nope you’re wrong.” It’s subjective.
@@Le_Confuzzlement yea, because the person who design this TV show has a favourite character (which became the main character) but which couldn't survive the Squid Game without a plot armour. It's like a god of this fictional world gives the main character a mystical plot-armour because the character is a nice guy.
@@TheLifeofJay1 Yeah, but he's only lucky because he's the main character, not that he's lucky so he gets to be the main character. If he wasn't the main character, it wouldn't have been written in the plot to have Ali save his life in red light green light. Him being the main character gives him the plot armor that allows him to be lucky enough to pass the games and eventually win.
I would’ve done the same thing he did and just book it across, might as well go out running..even though he did screw over the people behind him by going to fast
@@pushmedown100 I wanted somebody to try hopping with one foot on each tile. The strong tiles can handle twice the weight and the weak tiles can handle less than the weight of one. So maybe if you split the weight between both it would hold.
@@randybowman or step on the side of the glass instead of the dead center because it's a stronger spot. But the guards would probably eliminate you for that, it's basically the same as stepping on the railing
The panicked running away in red light green light was very realistic. That’s exactly what I would do and I would get killed in Round 1. Those who think otherwise might be forgetting the terrifying psychological shock of realizing that “eliminated” meant murdered. Would you really be able to make that adjustment?
The guards state "If you just follow the rules, you can leave this place _safely_ with the prize money we promised." This is a lie! When the glass bridge exploded at the end of the game, Sae-byeok was mortally wounded from a shard of the debris. A chance event like that breaks the integrity of the game, where everyone is granted equal opportunity. It felt way too much of an outlier to ignore.
That was my biggest problem with Squid Game. They allowed way too many outliers while toting "equality." The tools that were smuggled in were never confiscated afaik, those who had them just died. The bridge exploding literally killed a player (though this could have been lessened if the Squid Game runners at least *attempted* to patch her up. It would still be kinda stupid, but it would be stupid on the part of the frontman and not the writers.) I mean I get that it could have been a lie and they didn't care about equality at all, but obviously they do care about outliers because they dealt with the doctor guy.
@@Insertfunnycomment i think the only one that i noticed was the glass. most of the things that i think most would have considered “outliers” are things that people have done/caused… those are NOT outliers, they are cause and affect. not saying anything anyone said was wrong just pointing out what i believe to be fact.
I saw that too!! I was thinking, well she passed the game, fair and square, but due to what ever stupid reason th glass just explodes? Somthing that wasn’t meant to be a harm to players ended up being what caused her to die, and the guards didn’t attempt to do anything about it. And this whole thing about “just follow the rules and you get out of here safely” technically isn’t true. In a game between to teams, you can “follow the rules” but one person, or one team with end up dying either way. As for this statement as well, while it was on the players own will to join the game, before the first game had begun there was nothing stated about death. Sure they signed a contract and agreed to play but when the business man said “you can play games like this for money” you could just think it’s a job about testing games or video games, I just feel like there was no heads up saying their lives would be lost in death games they were forced to play.
@@ajreid1168 But see the thing about the game is it's supposed to be entirely equal. No outside influences are supposed to infringe on it. This means that while yes, players bringing weapons into the game and using them is cause and effect, it takes away that equality that is so important to the gamerunners. Yes, the frontman didn't technically "cause" the players to bring in the lighter or knife, but he didn't "cause" the doctor to begin using his skills to try to gain an edge in the game either but he shut that shit down when he found out about it, meanwhile the other people got off scot free with no consequences. I don't even remember a scene where either item was confiscated.
Maybe I’m thinking too deep and over analyzing, but maybe it can be a social commentary of how we’re made to believe we are all equal and that there are rules in place to ensure that there are still going to be others who will have more privilege due to circumstances even if they may have similar monetary issues that life is still unfair even if you play it safe and do everything you’re supposed to. But maybe that’s just me.
Yep, always always define the terms of the agreement. That was the first mistake for all of them. Sang Woo was the only one who friggen paid enough attention.
Not sure if people understand how difficult sugar honeycombs is, considering that the show made it seem like even a triangle is easy in 10 minutes. The sugar isn't airtight, there are tiny holes in them, just like any other breaded item like a crouton. No matter how careful you are, it might just break on you for zero reason if it was cooked in an unlucky fashion. Good luck doing that in a timed environment, ain't no way 80% of the the people lose on that one realistically
@@morisco56 apparently it does, but nobody is gonna think of it. And even if you did, you might melt the actual cookie and crack it, so it's not a guarantee either
The best unwritten off rule was that an inside employee can profit on the dying bodies via "organ harvesting" the Rouge pink guys would've made bank if they didn't cheat, heck the game maker said "I don't care what you do to those bodies, cheating is unacceptable".
You know as heinous and despicable In-Ho is for running these games, I do respect this part of them. The fact that the Front Man got so angry at the employees who helped the doctor cheat. The fact that they apologized for the cheating getting in the way of the game. As despicable as they are, I do appreciate that one layer of integrity the games have. That everyone is treated fairly via abiding by the rules. I have to give credit where it’s due with that and how angry In-Ho got at that guard’s betrayal.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 you do realise that was only because it was getting in the way of the VIP bets. By the doctor cheating he was making the game unfair not for the players but for the ones betting.
@@AdriCr4ft Wouldn't it have also went against what Il-nam would've wanted. That in the fight for money, everyone needed to be equal, because they weren't out in the world.
Once enough beds are gone you can actually see the games painted on the walls. Once you know what's left based on the paintings if you've survived this long, you can actually have a strategy
@The Dark Overlord right? Any time I'm in a room for an extended period of time (i.e. doctor's office) I analyze everything around me repeatedly until something happens or I leave. You would think people especially those like Sang Woo would have really looked at every detail.
Even though I've seen all the games the pictures don't reveal very much to me unless it's because I'm not Korean. The jumping one is the only one that stands out to me.
@@reduXstereo The marbles one definitely stood out. That's not just a Korean thing. Red light green light also sticks out but that was the first game so
I personally know that I won't survive this game because I would die from the pressure. But there are people who want to assume that they are the main protagonist and will survive these death games with flying colors and assume that cold hearted trickery, betraying and murder will be an easy thing to accomplish. But they are completely underestimating how strong fear and panic can affect your ability to think. People in these movies are "dumb" because they are in a state where they couldn't think properly because of the stress their minds will be in. The main thing that's different from these characters and us is that we have the foresight on what's gonna happen unlike them who are completely unaware of what will happen. I want to rant a little bit longer but I think this is enough to express how, at times, I can get annoyed with people who think that these will be a walk in the park.
Me and my roommate actually "played" along as best we could taking guesses on what to do next and discussing what our next move would be, we found out he dies in marbles (unfortunate because our habit of teaming up because we are friends killed him) and I made it farther but I die crossing the fucking glass bridge anyways so my household doesnt win i know that forsure lmao
I am not saying it's a walk in the park but knowing myself I would probably freeze out of fear in green light red light Now getting killed because of a man who tried to kamikaze is bad luck but again, knowing myself, I would probably move farther from the other people Even as a kid when playing against people I would move far from the other people so i can have a little space and I'm very shy so yea Theres still a chance I would die cuz of some kamikaze guy but that's just chance I'd say I probably survive it and the number picking in the glass thing, I would 100% pass it The first thing that came on my mind when seeing the numbers 1-16 was "get 16 get 16" no way I would lose The only ones I'm not sure if I'll win because it's out of chance is tug of war and squid game Tug of war if I get picked by the weaker side I'm doomed and if I face a strong experienced fighter in squid game I lose
I feel like, if a sane person somehow survived this ordeal, and came out a winner, there would still be detrimental effects on your mental state. If you are a normal person, watching over 400 people die before your eyes for various reasons, how could you go back to normal living? That would be soo awful living but knowing what you know.
I mean gi hun was literally traumatized and became depressed for like 2 or 3 years and didnt shower and pretended he didn’t have the money probably bcus of guilt
@@catsinwonderland7473 you can’t even talk about what would happen to you tho bc you’d either be put in a mental hospital for being delusional or possibly imprisoned. the therapist will not be quick to believe that you went to play a game at a secret institution to win money and hundreds died by elimination. what it will sound like to them is that you killed others to earn money, like a hustle. so you keep what happened to you inside and slowly kill yourself from the pain and guilt
X is feeling left out Edit; if only my videos would get the same amount of likes i get in my comments Yes I just took advantage for a cheeky self promotion *sweats
It was never clear how many people could win the game... logically, if only one person could win then it's not worth it...but I was under the impression, from the way the game was presented, that there could be numerous winners at the end.
@Smit Shilpatul Okay, let's try looking at it this way. Maybe their encouragement to kill each other is to get an appropriate amount of people for each round for reasons that aren't "Only 1 lives". Before Tug of War, there were teams that were very much imbalanced and in no way could've been divisible by 10. Before Marbles, they didn't get the opportunity they were looking for because no one killed anyone so they were forced to let someone get a by. With Glass Stepping Stones, it literally didn't matter how many people were there. Squid Game, how do you play with 3 people? Surely you CAN'T have someone get a by on the last game. So they encouraged murder again. Another reason could simply be a test of morality of humanity. I mean, look at what the game creator's actions and words hint at and you see that he seems to doubt humanity but still has hope. After all, look at how much of a liking he took to 456 and the fact that he more or less spared him despite him not winning the game. At least the way he was supposed to. Having said all of that, I have a feeling your answer might be more likely, but it just feels so screwed in my opinion.
There could have been. Squid game is a team game, but only 2 people happened to be left standing. If people didn't start murdering each other then a lot more would have been left after the glass bridge
As far as the why of why hasn't this game be revealed to the masses, I think the simplest explanation is the fact that not many people would believe you even if you tried to expose it.
yeah even the people who didn’t come back to the game were watched if I recall correctly, but not to mention the cops didn’t even bother to take him serious only one who did was inclined to believe it because his brother went missing
Notice how every single person who got pushed on the glass stepping stones got pushed onto the wrong tile? So getting pushed has an 100% death rate. Therefore, if someone comes to push you, just jump to the other side, it saves you 100% of the time :P
I thought that two. It actually took me out a bit, cause it's really a horrible coincidence that EVERY time somebody is pushed it breaks. Also wondered why nobody even tried to Balance along the iron beams...
exactly though. I always wondered why that happened. Out of the 4 or 5 times someone was pushed they were pushed to the wrong glass. It seemed kinda ridiculous and stupid if you think about it.
Everyone thinks they would survive the first game, but I garuntee you, at least half of them, if they heard someone get shot and realized they were death games at that moment, they would react, jump, cover their mouth, retreat, all of it.
@@reversedreverse9820 fight would be to listen to the rules and either stay still or move at the right moments because you’re trying to win. Flight would be to literally run regardless of everything else bc you’re trying to escape
Lol, the IRS joke is actually a good point. You wouldn't be able to use that money for long without authorities being suspicious of how you got it. The moment you put that in a bank you'll have to justify it.
Surviving the games is a torture in itself, the dread of what comes next and knowing your demise is out of your control. It comes down to luck, and that's it. The marbles game was the cruelest cause at that point you choose someone you trust.
At the beginning of the Glass Bridge game, the gamemakers announced that the tempered glass could hold the weight of "even two players," while the normal glass couldn't support even one. I was half expecting the couple who took a dive to end up smashing a tempered glass pane, leaving the final three with only a normal glass pane to step on -- therefore creating TWO blanks and requiring the remaining players to balance on the center beams.
I'm dead by game 2 at the latest. Not going to assume I can carve a brittle cookie with a needle with 0 mistakes. Oh, and I would have forgot my plot armor at home
Well, I saw cinema summary's video on how to survive. And it would be to moisten the cookie with something and either dissolve the outline with that (since the outline is thinner than the main part) or after moistening it, just carve out the weak moist outline.
@@frozenburst64 that's literally how Gi-hun solved the umbrella. But considering my likely emotional state trying to solve the game, I'm not convinced that I would have that epiphany before breaking my cookie.
@kerosin fuchs yeah sure easy on paper but try doing that when you have a time limit with someone standing right over you and waiting to blast your head off the second you mess up or run out of time
That's why they chose people whose lives are so shit who have such little to live for that they willingly decide to go back. A guy in debt to loan sharks, a North Korean defector, a Pakistani in one of the world's most racist countries.
Honestly what got most of the ppl killed on the first one was the initial shock of it. No one expected it to be life or death, so of course most ppl panicked and got caught up.
@@tlkfanrwbyfan8716 I hate that our industry in the US is way too crazy about social commentary and politics, to the point they place it above actually entertaining the audience. Squid Game shows you can do both so long as you don’t put politics and social commentary above the entertainment.
@@MyShiroyuki A small counterpoint: the average American audience doesn’t understand subtly nor do they really care to read into things. A lot of Americans take things at face value and go about their day. I do agree that Hollywood always take the lazy approach whenever they try to produce a movie with a moral since they don’t seamlessly integrate the message with the story at all. But there’s a reason why a movie franchise like Fast and Furious does so well in America as oppose to like Del Toro’s Shape of Water.
Because the show wasn't about the games but the characters. If you look at the games they are very lazy for the most part. The only reason people like it is Korea knows how to make the audience connect with the main characters so you'll end up crying once one or more of them inevitably die
@@J-manli fast and furious has always made significantly more money worldwide than domestically, with most of the worldwide sales coming from china.. kinda feels like you just wanted an excuse to make fun of americans with unsubstantiated claims, people enjoy what they enjoy and claiming someone doesnt understand subtly just because theyre entertained by something you dont like or dont believe is deep enough sorta makes you look like a pretentious asshole edit: squid game also isnt particularly subtle either, anyone who cares enough to read into it at all can comprehend the basic idea of “omg rich eats the poor!! no 1 is care about the more downtrodden people of society!1!! so deep!!”, and while squid game was entertaining enough, imo a lot of the writing was absolutely unbearable if you actually pay attention to it
@@supershooter28 exactly. My thought process was I’d get to see 2 people go before me so I can get the gist of the game while also not being anxious waiting for my turn and overthinking. Let alone the timer
I think this depressed me more then anything. This is too true these days, reality shows and talent shows are our squid games. Crumbs from the lords on high to a single pleb if they can out do a group of their peers.less violent but equally exploitative.
lmfao no it's a metaphor for capitalism. just think of how Amazon treats their workers. unless majority of Amazon workers do something nothing happens. do not want to play the game or do not want to work fro Amazon ur eliminated uve got no money to support urself and also u can't leave the game cuz u need money
@@henryyu4694 microcosm microcosm. The only real difference is context. The reality shows are a byproduct of capitalism. Capitalism is the case, the show is an effect. Who truly enjoys reality shows, who do they benefit. You see, the parallel is quite apparent, the lower classes dance on the stage to be picked as the best. The difference is, what kind of dance they are performing.
I'm telling you, I'd be one of the 13 (???) that didn't return after we voted out after the first game. Utter madness to return after seeing the initial carnage.
@@ghostdomain1550 well they probably didn’t wanna live if the other was gone so they went back together, and it was never clarified that there could only be one winner in the first few games
And you'd still be dead. Remember: the final reward was for the total of 456 players, 45.6 billion won. That means they tracked down those that didn't return, and "eliminated" them. Clause #2 overrides clause#3.
@@Promses2Keep Ah, you're right. Although, it takes away the 'fairness'. Once on the outside, how would someone know that the majority of players had agreed to return and that their own refusal to return would lead to their elimination? After all, they'd voted and the majority agreed to leave, thus 'terminating' the game.
If I made it to the Marbles game, I would've been fine because while everyone else was choosing friends, I would've picked someone I didn't get along with. It makes more sense strategically because 1. if we're going against each other, I have no issue killing them and 2. If we're working together, they're not going to do anything to me to jeopardize their own chance of survival. In a pick a partner situation, there's no downside to selecting an "enemy"
@@avataremilystargaryen12 but like I said, what the game is wouldn't matter. By choosing a duo partner they're not going to sabotage you if it's a team game that also affects their survival so there's no downside to choosing someone you hate in that situation
if you were in that situation you would think "ah, a team game" and it is rational to pick someone you work well with. i highly doubt you would pick an enemy in this situation.
I feel like a big problem with the squid game is that there's an unwritten rule that there can only be one winner. Because of this the best strategy would be to kill as many people as you can so you can have the best chances of survival. This unwritten rule is enforced by how none of the armed guards tried to stop a player being beaten to death and players killing each other in-between games were actively encouraged. This unwritten rule is very disingenuous because the rules were that you only have to survive the 6 games to earn the money, not that you can be the only one left standing. If this is the case, then the best strategy would be to team up with other players so everyone had the best chances of survival. But the nature of the games and the organization behind them seem to encourage betrayal through the unwritten rule.
I mean, not really. Game 1, having more people as body shields help and while more people to knock you, it's just a minor setback compared to body shields saving your life. Game 2, more people to give you ideas. Game 3, you just gotta worry about the teams your facing. Game 4, it's one v one, people everyone else has no effect on you. Game 5, having more people infront of you is literally the best way to win. Game 6, it's probably better to have this as a team game unless you super strong and confident in pulling off a 1v1. The only benefit of killing is keeping others from killing you or increasing your prize money. Even then, killing probably just more likely to put a target on your back and after a certain point, the difference between 40 million usd and 10 million usd isn't much when your used to living in poverty. It's more likely a presupposed or implanted idea.
The last game is a game where there can only be 1 winner. You have to play the games by the rules, and you can’t know what the game is before they introduce it to you (which is why they had to kill the doctor). This being said, they wouldn’t tell you that only one player could win because that would spoil the last game. If saebyeol didn’t die from the glass stabbing her, Sang Woo, Gi Hun and her would have to fight to the death to see who one the squid game. Same thing would be if there was 6 people at the finale.
Though it seems the chances of survival is 1 in 456, I will argue that the odds are slightly smaller than that. It's actually possible for all players to die. If not for plot armor, Gi-hun should have died on at least 3 occasions during game.
True, but that can be said for other characters aswell, as much as they preached about the game being “fair” they were not, they even congratulated him at the end by winning on hard work and luck…
The only thing that made it... meh. Knowing he would get to the end. Though the way he reacted was absolutely... accurate? and awe-ful. But just like there is a chance everyone could die, there is a chance there is more than 1 winner.
@@rexyggor6417 nah this games seems to be designed for only one winner but maybe next season we'll find out if there has been multiple winners in the past
I don’t remember them ever stating only one could win. You just had to survive all the games, if more people survived the glass bridge, the teams would get bigger when they played the squid game, meaning a team could potentially win? Splitting the price between them
Yeah, but in the files that Jun-ho found, there was only one winner every single year, so maybe it’s just an unstated rule or the games always have the same outcome.
@@thekyoungin6054 it’s very possible to have multiple people win. Just unlikely for some reason. And I believe the files should multiple people winning in the same year tho
@@thekyoungin6054 Might be because if they did that whole dinner part every year, and let players take knives with them to their room, the players might have murdered each other before the final game starts, causing only two to remain. (I am assuming the masked guys would intervene if the last two tried killing each other, since the last game still needs to be played)
nah, if there are too many players left, they would just find a way to kill them, just like how the front man switched off lights to prevent the glass worker to figure out which glass is tempered glass.
@@MapleEmpire that wasn’t to kill the glass maker that was to keep the game entertaining for the vips. There has been cases of multiple winners too I looked back at the file episode
The luckiest people may be the 7 percent who willing did not return after red light green light. Survived, and could expose the story to the press for some compensation
I cant stop thinking about the marble game the rules said: The player who takes all ten marbles from your partner wins." and I literally saw somewhere that why did they just not switch marbles? LIKE I FOR REAL AM CURIOUS If it would have worked :/
i assume the rule applies that if they did not participate in the game, they both would be eliminated. the point is to get all 10. if you both just have 5 at the end of the game you both lose by default.
The glass exploding seems like a flaw in the game, why wouldn't they clear the players first. Also imagine betting on one of the players only for them to win the second to last game but die because someone wanted exploding pains of glass.
Another thing with the glass bridge, I'm not saying in any way that I could pull this off let alone making it that far into the games, but it's something I've thought as possibility: At the start, have all players hold their shoes in their hands (no rules were said to actually leave them behind). Throw the shoe as hard as you can at a glass panel, whichever doesn't break is likely to be the tampered glass. You can check the other panel with your remaining shoe. Alternatively, you could sit down, reach as far as you can without falling and kick the glass in front as hard as you can with the back of your foot. Players can pass their shoes to the front if the leader runs out. _"You have 16 minutes to cross the bridge."_ Why not even just monkey crawl along the metal bars holding the glass? It's also totally possible the guards won't allow it and might even kill you for trying. I'm saying jumping to your probable death is the last thing I'd do with 16 minutes. I'd consider every possibility that comes to my head.
Considering they shut the lights off when the glass manufacturer was examining the tiles, i dont think the ref would have put up with much of these antics. But who knows, they did allow some aticking in the marble game. I guess as long as youre being entertaining to the VIPs then you could get away with it...
Let's go further and ask why nobody tried just running along the metal beams or balancing their weight on them in case the glass broke. Maybe the guards wouldn't have allowed it, but I was surprised nobody tried it.
you could use the shoelaces to spin the shoes and hit the next glass with them so see if it breaks or not, and keep the shoe for the further usage. (the more people goe before you, the more shoelaces you can take to increase your range or ammount of shoes you could take)
I feel like if I lived to the honeycomb game and didn’t know anything about it, I would’ve picked the triangle. The umbrella just seemed too different from the other shapes, it would’ve been better to choose something that fits with the majority
Given I spent this whole show saying "oh god, I'd be so dead!" At every game, now looking forward to watching this 27 minute video to confirm that fact 😂
So sad when the Indian guy trust that guy and he died. Honestly the saddest death. Idk for some reason I felt like the old guy was involved so even tho it was sad for that time I knew he was in on it
I talked about this a lot with my friends at school and they said that they would survive the first game without a doubt which I know is not true at all. They would lose the first round immediately after realizing that being eliminated means getting murdered, same thing goes for me. The first game is more realistic because that’s how I would legitimately react, I would be to scared to move which means I would die once the time ran out.
I think in reality everyone would die in the first game because there's no way in hell one can stay perfectly still after realizing they're murdering the eliminated and you have herds of people running away. It would have been more realistic if they would have been told before the game began that they would be killed of they lost but they couldn't back out because they had signed the contract.
@@LoomiYT "sense" doesn't really come into play when you're being shot at. It's a normal, reasonable instinct to at least flinch if you hear a gunshot, let alone watch someone die in front of you or get splattered with their blood. Have you ever had to evacuate a building? Not a calm, rational fire drill that you knew was coming, but a fire alarm goes off or there's an earthquake and being on a high floor feels very unsafe. Even though we've been told since we were small not to take the elevator in an emergency, a LOT of people still head for it. And look at all the people who jumped to their deaths on 9/11. Dying of a fall isn't any more alive than dying in a fire, but their instinct was to get AWAY from the fire. It's easy to say "I would stay still as that's the logical thing to do" when you're sitting comfy at home able to see the whole situation. You're acting like it makes "sense" to calmly think "Aha, moving gets you shot," when in reality your thought would be more like "Oh, hell, they're SHOOTING!" and flight response kicks in.
You have less of a chance of survival than the Hunger Games in the Squid Game, I would rather be in the Hunger Games where at least your survival is influenced by skill
@@reduXstereo when did the story about starving children fighting each other and genetically engineered monsters come across as intentionally realistic to you?
I don’t think killing other people gives you higher odds of surving, wouldn’t that just make the cash prize higher (my point being it wouldnt really be worth it)
I think the ironic part is that the competition itself is set up to where multiple players can win, so a lot of the backstabbing really didn't need to happen. My biggest problem with the show itself is it went with the cliche ending of only one winner.
I mean the more people die the more money the eventual winner(s) will get. So the real greedy ones are obviously going to do some backstabbing. There is one thing that I know from humanity: when money is involved you can trust nobody.
I think sang-woo knew he couldnt win and he couldnt afford to leave empty handed, and the poor girl was bleeding out with no one to help, it was the only way it could have ended.
The Squid game essentially based of the red rooms and secret deathmatches or gore themes debacles of deepweb Essentially the main point is that the all participators and occupants shall be exterminated to put on more softened words There is no room for any amount of survivors
There wasn’t a rule about only one person winning, theoretically speaking only one game splits you in half before the glass so 228. then you substract 16 and just believe every person who moves forward one dies, 214. And then the last game would split you in half again, 107. So theoretically it was fully possible for the money to be split 107 ways, then you can do your own calculations about how many ppl who would’ve died would’ve left the game and how many alive would’ve left so I’d say with all things said and done it’s a good chance for it to be 50/456 chance instead of 1 Edit: 456/2 for tug of war, 228. 228/2 for marbles, 114. Glass had 18 so, 96. Squid game would prob split you in half, 48. Take account for idiots and ppl who would’ve survived leaving, it’d be more like 20/456 chance of winning. Thanks for the comment who pointed out my mistake.
Everyone could of survived the red light/green light, honeycombe and glass bridge game. It was only marbles, tug of war and last squid game that ensured only half would survive.
@@codeXenigma true but i took away from the glass thing as the chance of that happening is so low that’s it’s astronomical someone would make it all the way. I knew i didn’t want the calculation to have them all survive that since it’s basically impossible but i didn’t feel like doing the math to see the average number of ppl who would die so i just said one every new glass since it’s the most simple way, and offers more room for fuck ups, like accidents and shit.
@@error8119 not necessarily. if they had figured out from the get go that they could have hit the glass in front of them to see which ones to go to , they could have all made it across
You don't need plot armor to win, you need to be Sang-Woo but kill Gi-Hun before the final game instead of Sae-Byeok. Kill the healthy guy with his back turned, then your opponent is a dying girl and you're virtually guaranteed to win.
If they did make a season 2 it just wouldnt be as good as season 1, this story was written in 2011 or somewhere around there, the guy pitched his idea at every studio but no one took it, until netflix came around and took it, so for 10 or more years he had time to refine the story, thats why its well written, making a season 2 that can live up to the quality of the first would take alot of effort.
Do you think it's really sexism or ageism just because they didn't choose a team full of girls and old people let's not forget that the main characters team almost died if you're opposing team had some sort of strategy the main characters team would have easily died
I would've died in Red Light, Green Light, either because A.) I was one of the slowest runners in every year of P.E. Class, and would likely not reach the finish line in time, or B.) I am hypersensitive to certain loud sounds in real life like gunshots or fireworks, as soon as the shooting from the doll, started my body would be uncontrollably shaking by the time she calls out red light.
The reason people did this was because their lives were worthless to them. Most of us here have SOMETHING to hold on to. A reason to go on. They didn't. And that's the point. When you're at the end and somebody gives you an out, you take it. They even tried walking away but couldn't.
I think the wife wanted him to live on. We didn’t see it but given how much they clearly loved one another, she probably sacrificed her life so he could live.
The man had the higher chance of winning and they had children, so they probably wanted to give a good portion of that money to them, as well as at least one parent be alive for them.
Finally, someone has made a Saw/Jigsaw comparison! While it’s not all the same, the elderly, sick man that “wants to play a game” is definitely comparable!
A few people watching this video would survive, I guess. Not me, because I wouldn't have gone back after the red light/green light if I lived through it. I know my limitations, and I'm not going to be able to handle the sound of the gunfire. At best, I'd freeze completely.
The boss says the game needs to be equal and fair, but it’s unfair that he turned off the light after finding out that guy can tell between regular and tempered glass. You can’t just change the game in the middle of it to make it harder just cuz someone is good at it, he didn’t cheat or break any rule, so apparently you can’t survive cuz they “cheated” to make sure u don’t survive
And if I somehow do win, I would have PTSD and would like go INSANE I don’t have trouble watching gore but in real life that would leave ANYONE messed up. honestly.
Wait till you find out that governments around the world had much more sinister crimes than this game made on millions and they mostly made out without any kind of punishment.
they said not everyone returned to the game after the democratic process, which means there are few people out there that have played round one and just went back to their old lives without knowing what else went down at the game
@@bronxmade8710 nah I think they got killed. It’s insane how long the games been around and no one has ever said a word??? Yea it’s odd. And ill nam finding ginyu after he went to the police about squid games just indicate they are always watching.
The Black-Masked Man asked his red minions to still keep an eye on the 7% of quitters from red-light-green-light. My theory is, they will likely give the quitters an opportunity to play the game again.
Here's how I would play: In the first game, I would freeze like a deer in headlights and slowly pace forward behind someone while sobbing. In the cookie cutter, assuming I don't choose the umbrella, I will probably be fine. If I do choose umbrella, bye-bye Tristan, you're getting shot. In the tug of war, I would die. At least it's a quick death. If I somehow made it to marbles, I would maybe trick someone into giving me their marbles for setting up a game and then give it to the guard and survive. If they get physical, then they get shot. For glass stepping stones, I would stuff the shoes in a shirt and hit the glass to see which one is safe, or I would just walk on the metal bars, since the rules don't say anything against it. And during the nights, I would definitely stay up in fear of being murdered and would move around constantly trying to hide. I do not have the guts to murder anybody, though. If, by some miracle, I get to squid game, even if I manage to stab the opponent to death, I would probably just bleed out.
tug of war seemed anything but a quick death though lol - dont you remember that guy who was still barely alive on the floor? Broken bones and everything, must've been severely painful..Anyways they took his organs rip.
Your forgetting that you don't know the games. Also you would probably be in shock witnessing the events and not follow your plan even if you knew the games
@@Moraza4 and I can see why staying awake seems necessary, but you're going to get very disoriented at a couple of days on zero sleep, and possibly full on hallucinating by the glass bridge.
The marble episode was awesome. I like how it showed the warm side of the main character while also making it clear that he's ultimately going to save himself when it comes down to it. To me, that was one of the better episodes of TV I've seen in a while.
Can you imagine,squidward making a battle royale bc he's done with spongebob's bullshit and then grab everyone he hates,everyone in bikini bottom and uses his money from questionable jobs and watch them all dies except for spongebob and then spongebob finds patrick in the hospital and then wanting to adapt to land with sandy but changes his mind and leaves sandy to the land by herself while he goes to hunt down squidward as he starts another squid game in another place.
When you actually realize that "squid game" has that many games for *korea* (it was mentioned that there are squid games in every country but korea was said to be more entertaining).
But that IS assuming perfect Coordination, perfect skill, and perfect Luck from everyone until those games where you are required to kill someone else.
Whenever I watch a death game, I know I'd never survive. I'm such a coward and can't handle physical tasks. Even if by some god's grace I managed to survive even one task, the glass bridge would be the ultimate roadblock to me. I'm so scared of heights I can't go up one flight of glass staircases, nevermind a glass bridge I know is trying to kill me
Most people think like "oh I'll survive the games are easy" they don't realize in the grand scheme of things they're like one of those character never seen on screen who die in like the second game
To everyone: Don't forget that at its core this show is trying to say something about human nature and its flaws, on both sides of the game, the rich and the poor. The greed. The 'me before you' mentality. Survival mode. Like, sure there could've been more than one winner, but in a situation like this, you might not even think about that because you're so focused on winning and thereby staying alive that you might forget to be truly strategic. Also, you don't know what to expect, and the fear and confusion will change you and cloud your judgment. You would become primal, and your worst side would come out even for the best of people. A lot of things could have been handled differently and better and lots more people could have survived if not for the flaws in human nature.
If one is capable of keeping their fear of heights in check, the glass stepping stones might just be the easiest game out of the 6. Just Crash Bandicoot that shit, and tightrope walk the metal bars holding up the glass.
@@RavenGamingOverLord thats not even close. Danganronpa's killing is planned with intricate details. Among us you can just have a partner and location alibi and that's it, Danganronpa makes sure that you weren't even in the same place as where one of the material used in the killing is kept
I wouldn't even survive the first game. Especially if someone gets shot right next to me. Even if I did, I'd die from the marbel game cause I'd rather lose my life then be responsible for killing a loved one
@@neymiiie fr that's most likely when I would die too. Like imagine the shock of someone getting shot right next to you and you not knowing that it was a death game. I'd flinch hard enough to be detected 😭🤦♂️
was discussing this with a friend who asked me if i would survive, i said that i would until round 5 where i would jump onto the correct glass panel, but slip backwards and fall off because LOL shit balance
My view on the main character “being lucky”: I think that the plot focuses on a certain character BECAUSE they eventually do win in the ending of the show. Not the other way around. I think Gi Hun is the main character BECAUSE he wins in the end, and the plot would only be interesting if the main character wins (in this kind of show anyway). What I mean is that in this show, if the main character dies in the first game, would the plot be as interesting? No. For example, if the main character was that one guy who died in the first game, it would be a short ass series that wouldn’t be interesting at all. I think that the plot focuses on the person that wins the game to make the series not boring. See? The main character isn’t LUCKY, the main character is the one being focused on in the series. Saying that, however, the plot would’ve been just as interesting if Sang Woo or Sae Byeok won, but that’s only because they made it to the end as well as Gi Hun. Think about it, if Sae Byeok or Sang Woo died early, they wouldn’t have been nearly as interesting. It’s the same with the main character. If they died early, the show would not be interesting at all. The show could’ve chosen Sae Byeok or Sang Woo, but they died in the end, and we wouldn’t have seen all the stuff that happened after the last game AND there wouldn’t be a SECOND SEASON! That’s what I think, u can disagree if u want 😊
Of course you expect the main character to make it to the end but at the same time his ultimate win is not guaranteed specially when watching foriegn films or series. American movies are more of the overcome obstables and persevere at the end kind while foreign films I find are more of the deal with crap but still come up short at the end type of movies.
I mean even I didn't know what final outcome would be. I knew the MC would have made it out alive. But I was also rooting for Ji-yeong. I did think they would win together. And when it was revealed that she was wounded by a glass shard. I literally said "oh no" out loud.
1. There wasn’t supposed to be a second season. The writer said he has no idea where season 2 is going 2. The main character had plot armor and it shows. Ali saved him in the first game. The man begged to be 1 on the glass game. It’s surprising how he survived the night that the contestants were killing each other. 3. The main character is naive and kind. That’s not how life works. People who have these attributes are taken advantage of and the reality is what happened to Ali is what was supposed to happen to the main character. He’s constantly making jokes and trusting people foolishly and speaks up to the gangster. The same gangster had no problem beating and killing other people who stood up to him but when it came to the main character for some reason he didn’t care??
Anybody who isn't hard of hearing would have died in the 1st game (unless they knew gunshots would go off) there's no way people don't jump at the 1st gun shot
That game was intentionally made hard to win based on the guns not being silenced. They wanted to weed out the large numbers for the sick entertainment.
Not saying I wouldn’t panic and run when I saw someone die next to me but if it was just a quick little jolt like what usually happens after a gunshot you’d be fine
Couldn’t imagine surviving past round 2 even with an easy shape - my hands are shaky at the best of times! And kudos to anyone who can carve out a perfect umbrella shape whilst people around them are being “eliminated” 😂
Honestly as much as how people explain how to easily beat the games shown and certain tactics in the series, it is implied that the games are randomized. Implications: The VIPs comment on how the Korean games is the best of them all, it could just be a generalized comment of game shows in Korea but it may as well imply that there are other variations of Squid Games in other countries. This would also imply that the games are based of childhood games in the country it takes place in if that were the case. The VIPs did not know what the glass bridge game was about until it was revealed. With the previous statements, we can also assume that new games are added in, therefor adding a sense of randomness on what would be the set of games. Sure there is the thing where the games are already hinted by the paintings on the wall in the bunkroom, but for all we know they could be changing the walls for every new wave of contestants. This is just speculation in the end, as perhaps this is just a rich man's Horserace, where the rich only watch this to bet and gamble and the games are always the same. We'll never know until it's shown.
Yeah thats another thing i brought up is no matter how you prepare you wont know, even if you played before. The guys even say you arent allowed to know thr game prior to mske it an even plsying field
I'd say my death would occur at the Tug of War or during the night time fight. 1) Red Light Green Light is pretty easy. 2) The cookie one might get me since I'm bad at arts and crafts, but I know I'd pick the square or circle. 3) The Tug of War would imply I survive the night, but it's 50/50 I land on a good team. 4) As for the Night Time Fight, I'm not good at making friends, so I wouldn't have allies and would simply get jumped.
Tug of War: “For a large majority of us, a lot of us are going to be falling to our deaths.” It’s literally half. The odds aren’t 50-50, wrestlers have higher odds than old men, but as for the number of people eliminated it is literally half.
The marbles game does not require 20 marbles. It requires you to have the other player’s ten marbles without violence. Each pair could swap their marbles and both satisfy the win criterion.
@@BonnieSypula-ts7oo …I believe he’s trying to say that you would have all of their original marbles, while they have all of yours if you switched; it’s one of those fine print/thinking outside the box kind of things that guards may allow them to do. Kinda like how he licked the cookie to dissolve it instead of using the needle they provided (as they didn’t say that you had to use the needle to get it out) or how like in tempered glass game where they might have been able to check if it was tempered by kicking the glass directly in front of them while sitting on the edge of the one they’re currently on. “Adapt and overcome”
Do you guys think that would actually work these games aren’t actually a legitimate process. They wouldn’t actually be like “holy shit you are right you pass”. They would tell you just to follow the rules. I’ve seen so many people comment this and it’s stupid as shit
@@nateclark8208 they only force players to follow the rules in red light green light. No guards shoot Han mi Nyeo and deok su for using a lighter to heat the needle, nobody shoots gi heun for licking the cookie, nobody shoots sang woo or gi heun for deceiving their partners in marbles.
The behind the scenes videos are very interesting. For the Tug of War game the teams didn’t compete against each other they were actually pulling a robot and then the scenes were put together.
I saw a few interviews they said the games were hard and the honeycomb game they had to piece together cause they were breaking. A couple of the actors who survived or was supposed said that was the hardest cause it kept breaking
@Doppelganger D With enough force I'm sure they would break the glass, though I'm sure the guards would never allow this to happen. It was just a thought.
People always talk about how it’s so unlikely and unrealistic that the main character always wins. However, have you ever considered that they’re the main character because they won?
Not really. He won because he's the main character. There are many times when plot armor saved him to create dramatic effect. For example, him falling over in red light green light and Ali holding him in mid-air to prevent him from getting killed. That would never have happened to another people if they were not the main character. In fact, if it wasn't for the contributions of others, Gi Hun should've died. The only game where he depended on himself only was the cookie cutter game, where he used the technique of licking the cookie in order to break the shape out. Every other game, he's depended on other people to help him pass the game, which is fine, but to say that he's the main character because he deserves to is wrong.
Logically thinking, Sangwoo should be the main character as he's the best equipped to guess what the games are and pass them and was also willing to become cold and calculating as he betrayed people and pushed them to their deaths.
@@Le_Confuzzlement If one is to win squid game, they must get a bit lucky, and certain unlikely events must happen for them to win. In a show that is trying to depict squid game, it would make sense for them to focus on the eventual lucky winner. So, naturally, the main character ends up getting lucky and getting their ass saved a few times. Why wouldn’t they? That needed to happen for them or anyone else to win. Also, I never said he’s the main character bc he “deserves to be”, I only said he’s the main character because he won. Why would the show not have the winner be the main character? Let’s say someone else got luckier and won. Then it would make more sense for them to be the focal point of the show. Also, in terms of who is or isn’t deserving of being the main character, it all comes down to subjective opinion, so you saying it’s “wrong” to call someone worthy of being the main character is actually wrong in and of itself. That’s like if you told me what your favorite song was and I told you “nope you’re wrong.” It’s subjective.
@@Le_Confuzzlement yea, because the person who design this TV show has a favourite character (which became the main character) but which couldn't survive the Squid Game without a plot armour. It's like a god of this fictional world gives the main character a mystical plot-armour because the character is a nice guy.
@@TheLifeofJay1 Yeah, but he's only lucky because he's the main character, not that he's lucky so he gets to be the main character. If he wasn't the main character, it wouldn't have been written in the plot to have Ali save his life in red light green light. Him being the main character gives him the plot armor that allows him to be lucky enough to pass the games and eventually win.
@@sety5591 Yes, exactly
The guy who calculated the odds of which glass tile was safe is so underrated
I would’ve done the same thing he did and just book it across, might as well go out running..even though he did screw over the people behind him by going to fast
Not which glass was safe but the likelihood of him getting every tile correctly with every possible combination
@@linky5198 well yea that makes more sense
@@pushmedown100 I wanted somebody to try hopping with one foot on each tile. The strong tiles can handle twice the weight and the weak tiles can handle less than the weight of one. So maybe if you split the weight between both it would hold.
@@randybowman or step on the side of the glass instead of the dead center because it's a stronger spot. But the guards would probably eliminate you for that, it's basically the same as stepping on the railing
The panicked running away in red light green light was very realistic. That’s exactly what I would do and I would get killed in Round 1. Those who think otherwise might be forgetting the terrifying psychological shock of realizing that “eliminated” meant murdered. Would you really be able to make that adjustment?
I think survival in that one highly depends on your fight, flight or freeze response. You benefit if your natural response is freeze
Same but i wont run instead i will look around like wtf is going on and gets shot
@@CaityRaindrop literally froze up so many times i almost got myself killed it’s not funny
my natural response is flight.
I would definately die.
I'd probably freeze too much and get get killed via time out
The guards state "If you just follow the rules, you can leave this place _safely_ with the prize money we promised." This is a lie!
When the glass bridge exploded at the end of the game, Sae-byeok was mortally wounded from a shard of the debris. A chance event like that breaks the integrity of the game, where everyone is granted equal opportunity. It felt way too much of an outlier to ignore.
That was my biggest problem with Squid Game. They allowed way too many outliers while toting "equality."
The tools that were smuggled in were never confiscated afaik, those who had them just died. The bridge exploding literally killed a player (though this could have been lessened if the Squid Game runners at least *attempted* to patch her up. It would still be kinda stupid, but it would be stupid on the part of the frontman and not the writers.)
I mean I get that it could have been a lie and they didn't care about equality at all, but obviously they do care about outliers because they dealt with the doctor guy.
@@Insertfunnycomment i think the only one that i noticed was the glass. most of the things that i think most would have considered “outliers” are things that people have done/caused… those are NOT outliers, they are cause and affect. not saying anything anyone said was wrong just pointing out what i believe to be fact.
I saw that too!! I was thinking, well she passed the game, fair and square, but due to what ever stupid reason th glass just explodes? Somthing that wasn’t meant to be a harm to players ended up being what caused her to die, and the guards didn’t attempt to do anything about it. And this whole thing about “just follow the rules and you get out of here safely” technically isn’t true. In a game between to teams, you can “follow the rules” but one person, or one team with end up dying either way. As for this statement as well, while it was on the players own will to join the game, before the first game had begun there was nothing stated about death. Sure they signed a contract and agreed to play but when the business man said “you can play games like this for money” you could just think it’s a job about testing games or video games, I just feel like there was no heads up saying their lives would be lost in death games they were forced to play.
@@ajreid1168 But see the thing about the game is it's supposed to be entirely equal. No outside influences are supposed to infringe on it. This means that while yes, players bringing weapons into the game and using them is cause and effect, it takes away that equality that is so important to the gamerunners. Yes, the frontman didn't technically "cause" the players to bring in the lighter or knife, but he didn't "cause" the doctor to begin using his skills to try to gain an edge in the game either but he shut that shit down when he found out about it, meanwhile the other people got off scot free with no consequences. I don't even remember a scene where either item was confiscated.
Maybe I’m thinking too deep and over analyzing, but maybe it can be a social commentary of how we’re made to believe we are all equal and that there are rules in place to ensure that there are still going to be others who will have more privilege due to circumstances even if they may have similar monetary issues that life is still unfair even if you play it safe and do everything you’re supposed to. But maybe that’s just me.
Trust me after watching the show for myself
I know exactly why I wouldn’t survive
Sang woo would honestly find some way to make sure I die
Hahahaha yeah. I hate that guy 😅
@@LG_XD I was a little sad when he died but yeah he was kinda a bad person
@@spotlesstank8800 I agree with everything he did apart from killing 067
@@LG_XD well during the honeycomb one he didn’t tell his teammates, which I didn’t like that he did that
True
Reason 1 why you wouldn't survive: *You are NOT the main character*
Even being close to the main character doesn’t garentee your survival at all
You’ll get killed for fucking character development
Or the camera man
Or Il nam
@@truegaylancer7474 He survived Squid Game but still died lmaoo
He had the right idea getting anime hair in the end.
Remember, when signing a contract for a game, ask what they mean by "eliminate".
They assume it's like Amazing Race
Yep, always always define the terms of the agreement. That was the first mistake for all of them. Sang Woo was the only one who friggen paid enough attention.
@Summoned Skull Exactly
I highly doubt the guards will answer as telling one person what would happen would break the equality.
Agreed, that small detail is a valuable lesson on its own
Not sure if people understand how difficult sugar honeycombs is, considering that the show made it seem like even a triangle is easy in 10 minutes. The sugar isn't airtight, there are tiny holes in them, just like any other breaded item like a crouton. No matter how careful you are, it might just break on you for zero reason if it was cooked in an unlucky fashion. Good luck doing that in a timed environment, ain't no way 80% of the the people lose on that one realistically
The glass game is still the most difficult imo
Would licking the cookíe actually work?
@@morisco56 apparently it does, but nobody is gonna think of it. And even if you did, you might melt the actual cookie and crack it, so it's not a guarantee either
@@psychopathicporo I was thinking that too.
The cast did it again in a TH-cam Netflix video and they all failed hahahah
The best unwritten off rule was that an inside employee can profit on the dying bodies via "organ harvesting" the Rouge pink guys would've made bank if they didn't cheat, heck the game maker said "I don't care what you do to those bodies, cheating is unacceptable".
You know as heinous and despicable In-Ho is for running these games, I do respect this part of them. The fact that the Front Man got so angry at the employees who helped the doctor cheat. The fact that they apologized for the cheating getting in the way of the game. As despicable as they are, I do appreciate that one layer of integrity the games have. That everyone is treated fairly via abiding by the rules. I have to give credit where it’s due with that and how angry In-Ho got at that guard’s betrayal.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 you do realise that was only because it was getting in the way of the VIP bets.
By the doctor cheating he was making the game unfair not for the players but for the ones betting.
@@AdriCr4ft
Wouldn't it have also went against what Il-nam would've wanted. That in the fight for money, everyone needed to be equal, because they weren't out in the world.
Necrophiliacs unite
But they took away the advantage of the glass man so that was unacceptable
If i was in the squid game, i'd envy those who died by headshots in green light, red light. They got as good as it gets a death.
Not all of them got headshots. The honeycomb challenge or marbles game were headshots from the guards at close range though.
@@benbrist i said i envy those that did, i remember the guy that was still alive in the coffin
Yeah, plus i think it was painless but scary
If i am going to die i would want it drawn out more. You know its the last experience you will have
@@johnpaulmarkes knock yourself out pal, i don't wanna feel what the inside of a crematorium feels like
Once enough beds are gone you can actually see the games painted on the walls. Once you know what's left based on the paintings if you've survived this long, you can actually have a strategy
@The Dark Overlord right? Any time I'm in a room for an extended period of time (i.e. doctor's office) I analyze everything around me repeatedly until something happens or I leave. You would think people especially those like Sang Woo would have really looked at every detail.
I don’t think the designs were all there until the game passed.
Even though I've seen all the games the pictures don't reveal very much to me unless it's because I'm not Korean. The jumping one is the only one that stands out to me.
@@reduXstereo
The marbles one definitely stood out. That's not just a Korean thing. Red light green light also sticks out but that was the first game so
I never noticed
Honestly at that point selling a kidney is just the better option
@@thotslayer9914 if it isnt you can run the underground market
Depends on yout drinking habits
@@thotslayer9914 it’s not, but they’re a gangsters what are you expecting
I'd rather suicide :)
@@albualexandru9086 that's a retarted solution
I personally know that I won't survive this game because I would die from the pressure. But there are people who want to assume that they are the main protagonist and will survive these death games with flying colors and assume that cold hearted trickery, betraying and murder will be an easy thing to accomplish. But they are completely underestimating how strong fear and panic can affect your ability to think. People in these movies are "dumb" because they are in a state where they couldn't think properly because of the stress their minds will be in. The main thing that's different from these characters and us is that we have the foresight on what's gonna happen unlike them who are completely unaware of what will happen. I want to rant a little bit longer but I think this is enough to express how, at times, I can get annoyed with people who think that these will be a walk in the park.
Anyone who says they'd win would probably run or be knocked over by one of the runners in red light green light
@@augustdruzgal475 or panic and try to escape like many had done toward the end of red light green light
I def agree with your point. Would you rather die confident or hopeless?
Me and my roommate actually "played" along as best we could taking guesses on what to do next and discussing what our next move would be, we found out he dies in marbles (unfortunate because our habit of teaming up because we are friends killed him) and I made it farther but I die crossing the fucking glass bridge anyways so my household doesnt win i know that forsure lmao
I am not saying it's a walk in the park but knowing myself I would probably freeze out of fear in green light red light
Now getting killed because of a man who tried to kamikaze is bad luck but again, knowing myself, I would probably move farther from the other people
Even as a kid when playing against people I would move far from the other people so i can have a little space and I'm very shy so yea
Theres still a chance I would die cuz of some kamikaze guy but that's just chance I'd say I probably survive it and the number picking in the glass thing, I would 100% pass it
The first thing that came on my mind when seeing the numbers 1-16 was "get 16 get 16" no way I would lose
The only ones I'm not sure if I'll win because it's out of chance is tug of war and squid game
Tug of war if I get picked by the weaker side I'm doomed and if I face a strong experienced fighter in squid game I lose
I feel like, if a sane person somehow survived this ordeal, and came out a winner, there would still be detrimental effects on your mental state. If you are a normal person, watching over 400 people die before your eyes for various reasons, how could you go back to normal living? That would be soo awful living but knowing what you know.
Time to go back
I mean gi hun was literally traumatized and became depressed for like 2 or 3 years and didnt shower and pretended he didn’t have the money probably bcus of guilt
At least they can pay for therapy
@@catsinwonderland7473 you can’t even talk about what would happen to you tho bc you’d either be put in a mental hospital for being delusional or possibly imprisoned. the therapist will not be quick to believe that you went to play a game at a secret institution to win money and hundreds died by elimination. what it will sound like to them is that you killed others to earn money, like a hustle. so you keep what happened to you inside and slowly kill yourself from the pain and guilt
Survivor's guilt, its a real thing
I'm so scared for Halloween, everyone is going to be dressed up as PS4 buttons
X is feeling left out
Edit; if only my videos would get the same amount of likes i get in my comments
Yes I just took advantage for a cheeky self promotion *sweats
@@AdriCr4ft he has been on the moon for 17 years
Oh my god! 😂
@@AdriCr4ft X is what the old man pressed.
I am so excited about that.
It was never clear how many people could win the game... logically, if only one person could win then it's not worth it...but I was under the impression, from the way the game was presented, that there could be numerous winners at the end.
Right? Especially when they explained that the original Squid Game was a Team vs Team game.
Maybe you play multiple rounds of squid game until there’s only one person left
@@jelliofthestars Who knows.
@Smit Shilpatul Okay, let's try looking at it this way. Maybe their encouragement to kill each other is to get an appropriate amount of people for each round for reasons that aren't "Only 1 lives".
Before Tug of War, there were teams that were very much imbalanced and in no way could've been divisible by 10. Before Marbles, they didn't get the opportunity they were looking for because no one killed anyone so they were forced to let someone get a by. With Glass Stepping Stones, it literally didn't matter how many people were there. Squid Game, how do you play with 3 people? Surely you CAN'T have someone get a by on the last game. So they encouraged murder again.
Another reason could simply be a test of morality of humanity. I mean, look at what the game creator's actions and words hint at and you see that he seems to doubt humanity but still has hope. After all, look at how much of a liking he took to 456 and the fact that he more or less spared him despite him not winning the game. At least the way he was supposed to.
Having said all of that, I have a feeling your answer might be more likely, but it just feels so screwed in my opinion.
There could have been. Squid game is a team game, but only 2 people happened to be left standing. If people didn't start murdering each other then a lot more would have been left after the glass bridge
You will win the game if you're maxed out all S.P.E.C.I.A.L
Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charm, Intelligence, Agility, Luck
Haha yes
*spams quantum*
DON'T FORGET THAT STONEWALL PERK AND MAX SPEECH
@@freedom-man why speech? You gonna try to convince Milly wild bill is dead or something?
@@tunnelsnakesrule7541 i dunno i just thought it would be good WHAT ELSE WOULD BE USEFUL BLOODY MESS WITH 5% MORE DAMAGE
This is so random, but I just thought about how the vent in the bathroom that was left unscrewed and foreshadowed was never brought up again.
It might appear again if there’s a second season with the new players in Squid Game
lol I forgot about that.
same!! it had that zoom in shot of it but never brought it up again :/
I think it was just there to indicate that they were almost caught since it was not all the way screwed in.
I always hoped it would be a season two thing, but I noticed that too.
As far as the why of why hasn't this game be revealed to the masses, I think the simplest explanation is the fact that not many people would believe you even if you tried to expose it.
Then after the agents by the billionaires who were hired to find people who did this, would neutralize them.
yeah even the people who didn’t come back to the game were watched if I recall correctly, but not to mention the cops didn’t even bother to take him serious only one who did was inclined to believe it because his brother went missing
@@jaydenwahobin2763 and we all know what happened to that cop.
Surely, some of the leaver would sign up on a witness protection agency
Well the billionaires bought them all, it's a world filled with corruption.
Notice how every single person who got pushed on the glass stepping stones got pushed onto the wrong tile? So getting pushed has an 100% death rate. Therefore, if someone comes to push you, just jump to the other side, it saves you 100% of the time :P
Bonus: Push the person who tried to push you, 100% guaranteed kill
I do wonder what would happen if they got pushed onto the right tile
I thought that two. It actually took me out a bit, cause it's really a horrible coincidence that EVERY time somebody is pushed it breaks.
Also wondered why nobody even tried to Balance along the iron beams...
@@thesayes6231 The rules state that you have to step on the tiles, you'll probably get shot if you tried walking on the beams
exactly though. I always wondered why that happened. Out of the 4 or 5 times someone was pushed they were pushed to the wrong glass. It seemed kinda ridiculous and stupid if you think about it.
Everyone thinks they would survive the first game, but I garuntee you, at least half of them, if they heard someone get shot and realized they were death games at that moment, they would react, jump, cover their mouth, retreat, all of it.
Atleast 66% would die. Depending on your fight flight or freeze response
@@wreckitrigo230 what would the fight response do in this situation? Attack the doll ?
@@reversedreverse9820 move. Fight would move.
@@reversedreverse9820 fight would be to listen to the rules and either stay still or move at the right moments because you’re trying to win. Flight would be to literally run regardless of everything else bc you’re trying to escape
Jokes on you, I freeze up when I’m in danger.
Garbage survival instincts to the rescue!
I’d be able to survive the initial wave. lol
Lol, the IRS joke is actually a good point. You wouldn't be able to use that money for long without authorities being suspicious of how you got it. The moment you put that in a bank you'll have to justify it.
I think they had a special bank set up for the winners of the game that they watch and keep track of
Considering the inventor was a very rich loan shark, he'd probably be able to create a new account and name the successor fairly easily
The organisation could buy higher officials and even the government if they want
I read somewhere that the organizers could have tied to casinos or gambling outfits; simply write it off as having won big while gambling.
@@constantgrievance9201 that makes the most sense. Don't know how revenue taxing works in Korea, but he might still be taxed for that
Surviving the games is a torture in itself, the dread of what comes next and knowing your demise is out of your control. It comes down to luck, and that's it. The marbles game was the cruelest cause at that point you choose someone you trust.
I felt so bad for the husband and wife on that one
Imagine at the glass game when they try to push someone off and it turned out to be the right glass XD
Awkward xd
They’d probably be like: Youre welcome, now go to the next glass
I wanted to see that happen the whole time I just wanted them to be like ha you fucking thought🤣
@@AmberGalyen The toilet couple was the one I wanted to see their reaction when they landed on tempered glass
At the beginning of the Glass Bridge game, the gamemakers announced that the tempered glass could hold the weight of "even two players," while the normal glass couldn't support even one. I was half expecting the couple who took a dive to end up smashing a tempered glass pane, leaving the final three with only a normal glass pane to step on -- therefore creating TWO blanks and requiring the remaining players to balance on the center beams.
There is really not such a thing as “fight or flight”. In nature it is: fight, flight or freeze.
Yes, although there's one more you left out: fawn, i.e. trying to survive by appeasing your assailant.
A phrase that I like to use rather than "fight or flight" is "run, hide, fight"
I tend towards freeze, so i think i could do round 1. But round 2? I would almost certainly fail.
@@callosamiusprometheus7350
Not sure whether you’re being too literal or not literal enough.
And in this case, freeze is the only one that will save you
I'm dead by game 2 at the latest. Not going to assume I can carve a brittle cookie with a needle with 0 mistakes. Oh, and I would have forgot my plot armor at home
@kerosin fuchs I'm not, my hands shake bad even under calm situations. I'm not trusting my life on shakey hands
Well, I saw cinema summary's video on how to survive. And it would be to moisten the cookie with something and either dissolve the outline with that (since the outline is thinner than the main part) or after moistening it, just carve out the weak moist outline.
Hi Dead by game 2 at the latest
@@frozenburst64 that's literally how Gi-hun solved the umbrella. But considering my likely emotional state trying to solve the game, I'm not convinced that I would have that epiphany before breaking my cookie.
@kerosin fuchs yeah sure easy on paper but try doing that when you have a time limit with someone standing right over you and waiting to blast your head off the second you mess up or run out of time
If I would have survived first round, I wouldn't have came back when given the second opportunity.
That's why they chose people whose lives are so shit who have such little to live for that they willingly decide to go back. A guy in debt to loan sharks, a North Korean defector, a Pakistani in one of the world's most racist countries.
@@Arkiasis South Korea is one of the worlds most racist country?
@@zizo9614 well yeah.
I know right
alot of them wanted to commit sucide anyway
A lot of us would have died in the first game and I would just do what they did in the show and hide behind people. Love your content. Great video
If i was in shape i would have a good chance
@@ZeroDim which shape would you pick? as before nobody knew what the game even was I would pick triangle. I think thats easy
Honestly what got most of the ppl killed on the first one was the initial shock of it. No one expected it to be life or death, so of course most ppl panicked and got caught up.
98% of the people watching this video would die first round . Unless you have balls of steel ...lol
that bridge is where every other person is getting offed
This premise has been done so much yet the Koreans still made it unique exciting
They know how to make good shows unlike certain countries
*cough* US *cough*
@@tlkfanrwbyfan8716 I hate that our industry in the US is way too crazy about social commentary and politics, to the point they place it above actually entertaining the audience. Squid Game shows you can do both so long as you don’t put politics and social commentary above the entertainment.
@@MyShiroyuki
A small counterpoint: the average American audience doesn’t understand subtly nor do they really care to read into things. A lot of Americans take things at face value and go about their day.
I do agree that Hollywood always take the lazy approach whenever they try to produce a movie with a moral since they don’t seamlessly integrate the message with the story at all. But there’s a reason why a movie franchise like Fast and Furious does so well in America as oppose to like Del Toro’s Shape of Water.
Because the show wasn't about the games but the characters. If you look at the games they are very lazy for the most part. The only reason people like it is Korea knows how to make the audience connect with the main characters so you'll end up crying once one or more of them inevitably die
@@J-manli fast and furious has always made significantly more money worldwide than domestically, with most of the worldwide sales coming from china.. kinda feels like you just wanted an excuse to make fun of americans with unsubstantiated claims, people enjoy what they enjoy and claiming someone doesnt understand subtly just because theyre entertained by something you dont like or dont believe is deep enough sorta makes you look like a pretentious asshole
edit: squid game also isnt particularly subtle either, anyone who cares enough to read into it at all can comprehend the basic idea of “omg rich eats the poor!! no 1 is care about the more downtrodden people of society!1!! so deep!!”, and while squid game was entertaining enough, imo a lot of the writing was absolutely unbearable if you actually pay attention to it
I would’ve died at the glass bridge. At that point I’d say “I’ll go first and get it over with.”
As I was watching that scene, I literally said "I'd pick 3 or 4 to be done quick, but still be able to watch someone else go" 🤦♂️
Lol I was like “I’m gonna go with 3”
@@supershooter28 exactly. My thought process was I’d get to see 2 people go before me so I can get the gist of the game while also not being anxious waiting for my turn and overthinking. Let alone the timer
Id be that math guy. just quicky run and hope the glass bounces me before breaking lol
The support poles holding those glasses seems wide enough for feet tbh 👀 But I guess they would shoot you if you tried that 🤷🏻♀️
This was more of a recap instead of explaining why you wouldn’t survive.
right? i went through the whole video expecting an explanation or analysis but it just ended up being a summary of what we already watched lol
@@sidneyr525 rightt
i agree. wouldve downvoted but i loved seeing scenes from this show anyway
@@heyhey7708 imagine disliking a vid
@@JaigarSecond Ikr. people aren't allowed to use that function :(
I think this depressed me more then anything. This is too true these days, reality shows and talent shows are our squid games. Crumbs from the lords on high to a single pleb if they can out do a group of their peers.less violent but equally exploitative.
lmfao no it's a metaphor for capitalism. just think of how Amazon treats their workers. unless majority of Amazon workers do something nothing happens. do not want to play the game or do not want to work fro Amazon ur eliminated uve got no money to support urself and also u can't leave the game cuz u need money
@@henryyu4694 so your saying the same thing, in different ways...
@@johnnyhellfire6 a stupid reality show doesn't compare at all to the severity of capitalism
@@henryyu4694 microcosm microcosm. The only real difference is context. The reality shows are a byproduct of capitalism. Capitalism is the case, the show is an effect. Who truly enjoys reality shows, who do they benefit. You see, the parallel is quite apparent, the lower classes dance on the stage to be picked as the best. The difference is, what kind of dance they are performing.
@@johnnyhellfire6 they aren't forced to dance and they don't need to dance to survive
I'm telling you, I'd be one of the 13 (???) that didn't return after we voted out after the first game. Utter madness to return after seeing the initial carnage.
but can u imagine surviving green light, red light tho?
I also find it so surprising how the husband and wife both returned. The probability of them both dying was already so high.
@@ghostdomain1550 well they probably didn’t wanna live if the other was gone so they went back together, and it was never clarified that there could only be one winner in the first few games
And you'd still be dead. Remember: the final reward was for the total of 456 players, 45.6 billion won. That means they tracked down those that didn't return, and "eliminated" them.
Clause #2 overrides clause#3.
@@Promses2Keep Ah, you're right. Although, it takes away the 'fairness'. Once on the outside, how would someone know that the majority of players had agreed to return and that their own refusal to return would lead to their elimination? After all, they'd voted and the majority agreed to leave, thus 'terminating' the game.
If I made it to the Marbles game, I would've been fine because while everyone else was choosing friends, I would've picked someone I didn't get along with. It makes more sense strategically because
1. if we're going against each other, I have no issue killing them and
2. If we're working together, they're not going to do anything to me to jeopardize their own chance of survival.
In a pick a partner situation, there's no downside to selecting an "enemy"
but at the star they didnt know the game they were playing so obviously they would pick someone they are close with
@@avataremilystargaryen12 but like I said, what the game is wouldn't matter. By choosing a duo partner they're not going to sabotage you if it's a team game that also affects their survival so there's no downside to choosing someone you hate in that situation
if you were in that situation you would think "ah, a team game" and it is rational to pick someone you work well with. i highly doubt you would pick an enemy in this situation.
@@gothkurata right! His comment is dumb and unrealistic asf
Type of person that has a strategy for everything in retrospect including fighting Batman if he were real
I feel like a big problem with the squid game is that there's an unwritten rule that there can only be one winner. Because of this the best strategy would be to kill as many people as you can so you can have the best chances of survival. This unwritten rule is enforced by how none of the armed guards tried to stop a player being beaten to death and players killing each other in-between games were actively encouraged. This unwritten rule is very disingenuous because the rules were that you only have to survive the 6 games to earn the money, not that you can be the only one left standing. If this is the case, then the best strategy would be to team up with other players so everyone had the best chances of survival. But the nature of the games and the organization behind them seem to encourage betrayal through the unwritten rule.
There can be multiple winners. The final game is a team game. So half of the people who make it to the last round can theoretically get the final pot
I mean, not really. Game 1, having more people as body shields help and while more people to knock you, it's just a minor setback compared to body shields saving your life. Game 2, more people to give you ideas. Game 3, you just gotta worry about the teams your facing. Game 4, it's one v one, people everyone else has no effect on you. Game 5, having more people infront of you is literally the best way to win. Game 6, it's probably better to have this as a team game unless you super strong and confident in pulling off a 1v1. The only benefit of killing is keeping others from killing you or increasing your prize money. Even then, killing probably just more likely to put a target on your back and after a certain point, the difference between 40 million usd and 10 million usd isn't much when your used to living in poverty. It's more likely a presupposed or implanted idea.
The last game is a game where there can only be 1 winner. You have to play the games by the rules, and you can’t know what the game is before they introduce it to you (which is why they had to kill the doctor). This being said, they wouldn’t tell you that only one player could win because that would spoil the last game. If saebyeol didn’t die from the glass stabbing her, Sang Woo, Gi Hun and her would have to fight to the death to see who one the squid game. Same thing would be if there was 6 people at the finale.
@@snoopyy116 Squid Game is a team game. You see it in the first scene. There can me multiple winners
@@TheJadedJames Yeah when you’re playing it normally, not when it’s modified to end in people dying
Being a loan shark in South Korea must suck if all their clients keep dying in death games
Loan shark : Damn this is the 5th that went missing this month!
RIGHT RIGHT
In reality they'd just try to run or suicide anyway like sang woo in the tub
Or creepy rich and loaded old bored men be compensating these loan sharks for the clients going 'missing'..
Though it seems the chances of survival is 1 in 456, I will argue that the odds are slightly smaller than that. It's actually possible for all players to die. If not for plot armor, Gi-hun should have died on at least 3 occasions during game.
True, but that can be said for other characters aswell, as much as they preached about the game being “fair” they were not, they even congratulated him at the end by winning on hard work and luck…
The only thing that made it... meh. Knowing he would get to the end.
Though the way he reacted was absolutely... accurate? and awe-ful.
But just like there is a chance everyone could die, there is a chance there is more than 1 winner.
See my thing is that he didn’t win because he’s the main character, he’s the main character because he won
But it’s also possible for many of them to survive
@@rexyggor6417 nah this games seems to be designed for only one winner but maybe next season we'll find out if there has been multiple winners in the past
I don’t remember them ever stating only one could win. You just had to survive all the games, if more people survived the glass bridge, the teams would get bigger when they played the squid game, meaning a team could potentially win? Splitting the price between them
Yeah, but in the files that Jun-ho found, there was only one winner every single year, so maybe it’s just an unstated rule or the games always have the same outcome.
@@thekyoungin6054 it’s very possible to have multiple people win. Just unlikely for some reason. And I believe the files should multiple people winning in the same year tho
@@thekyoungin6054 Might be because if they did that whole dinner part every year, and let players take knives with them to their room, the players might have murdered each other before the final game starts, causing only two to remain. (I am assuming the masked guys would intervene if the last two tried killing each other, since the last game still needs to be played)
nah, if there are too many players left, they would just find a way to kill them, just like how the front man switched off lights to prevent the glass worker to figure out which glass is tempered glass.
@@MapleEmpire that wasn’t to kill the glass maker that was to keep the game entertaining for the vips. There has been cases of multiple winners too I looked back at the file episode
The luckiest people may be the 7 percent who willing did not return after red light green light. Survived, and could expose the story to the press for some compensation
@@caethecritter plus it's implied they're still being monitored, so if they snitched, they'd probably get killed
14 people didn't return after red light green light game.
I cant stop thinking about the marble game the rules said: The player who takes all ten marbles from your partner wins." and I literally saw somewhere that why did they just not switch marbles? LIKE I FOR REAL AM CURIOUS If it would have worked :/
No it was whoever takes all of the marbles.
@@MrGreaves The rules said take the other partners marbles so they just assumed they needed all 20
This is the same thing I thought, there had to be some form of loophole
i assume the rule applies that if they did not participate in the game, they both would be eliminated. the point is to get all 10. if you both just have 5 at the end of the game you both lose by default.
@@maus0liam but each player got 10 marbles right? so 20 for each pair
The glass exploding seems like a flaw in the game, why wouldn't they clear the players first. Also imagine betting on one of the players only for them to win the second to last game but die because someone wanted exploding pains of glass.
It probably was rigged to the timer duh
like how in the first game those who didn’t make it to the finish line were eliminated
Shooting the players left on the glass or making the glass turn sideways would have been more practical and less dangerous
Well the games aren’t meant to be fair. Really it’s all about luck and that’s it.
Personally I was just pissed off because it seemed like such a cheap way to kill off an integral character
Everyone in squid game: struggling
Golden Furry: *eats popcorn* this is fun to watch
Golden furry
aren't we doing the same?
Golden Furries and that one Black Mask Furry
@@_mystic_5653 nah nah the black mask is a fleshy
@@possums154 a fleshy???????????
Another thing with the glass bridge, I'm not saying in any way that I could pull this off let alone making it that far into the games, but it's something I've thought as possibility:
At the start, have all players hold their shoes in their hands (no rules were said to actually leave them behind). Throw the shoe as hard as you can at a glass panel, whichever doesn't break is likely to be the tampered glass. You can check the other panel with your remaining shoe. Alternatively, you could sit down, reach as far as you can without falling and kick the glass in front as hard as you can with the back of your foot. Players can pass their shoes to the front if the leader runs out.
_"You have 16 minutes to cross the bridge."_ Why not even just monkey crawl along the metal bars holding the glass?
It's also totally possible the guards won't allow it and might even kill you for trying. I'm saying jumping to your probable death is the last thing I'd do with 16 minutes. I'd consider every possibility that comes to my head.
Genius
++++++
Considering they shut the lights off when the glass manufacturer was examining the tiles, i dont think the ref would have put up with much of these antics. But who knows, they did allow some aticking in the marble game. I guess as long as youre being entertaining to the VIPs then you could get away with it...
Let's go further and ask why nobody tried just running along the metal beams or balancing their weight on them in case the glass broke. Maybe the guards wouldn't have allowed it, but I was surprised nobody tried it.
you could use the shoelaces to spin the shoes and hit the next glass with them so see if it breaks or not, and keep the shoe for the further usage. (the more people goe before you, the more shoelaces you can take to increase your range or ammount of shoes you could take)
I feel i would die in the honeycomb game, i have never dealt With a sugar cristal and tried it a few days ago, tried licking like 456, it broke
don't start with an umbrella
I would die at the glass game probably
I feel like if I lived to the honeycomb game and didn’t know anything about it, I would’ve picked the triangle. The umbrella just seemed too different from the other shapes, it would’ve been better to choose something that fits with the majority
Given I spent this whole show saying "oh god, I'd be so dead!" At every game, now looking forward to watching this 27 minute video to confirm that fact 😂
I did the same thing! When I watched the first game I was 100% like “oh shit yeah I’d be out just like the rest of them no doubt”
Lol. Same.
Exactly durthest is get maybe game 3 but probably still die
So sad when the Indian guy trust that guy and he died. Honestly the saddest death. Idk for some reason I felt like the old guy was involved so even tho it was sad for that time I knew he was in on it
The saddest for me was the girl who got her throat silt in her sleep
Saddest was the fakeout 001 death, then Ali. It was messed up I totally agree.
he was pakistani but yes i genuinely agree
@@gothkurata oh I'm sorry .
Same tho Ali broke my little heart
I talked about this a lot with my friends at school and they said that they would survive the first game without a doubt which I know is not true at all. They would lose the first round immediately after realizing that being eliminated means getting murdered, same thing goes for me. The first game is more realistic because that’s how I would legitimately react, I would be to scared to move which means I would die once the time ran out.
I think in reality everyone would die in the first game because there's no way in hell one can stay perfectly still after realizing they're murdering the eliminated and you have herds of people running away. It would have been more realistic if they would have been told before the game began that they would be killed of they lost but they couldn't back out because they had signed the contract.
no; if they say move and get eliminated, it makes no sense to run
@@LoomiYT "sense" doesn't really come into play when you're being shot at. It's a normal, reasonable instinct to at least flinch if you hear a gunshot, let alone watch someone die in front of you or get splattered with their blood.
Have you ever had to evacuate a building? Not a calm, rational fire drill that you knew was coming, but a fire alarm goes off or there's an earthquake and being on a high floor feels very unsafe. Even though we've been told since we were small not to take the elevator in an emergency, a LOT of people still head for it.
And look at all the people who jumped to their deaths on 9/11. Dying of a fall isn't any more alive than dying in a fire, but their instinct was to get AWAY from the fire.
It's easy to say "I would stay still as that's the logical thing to do" when you're sitting comfy at home able to see the whole situation. You're acting like it makes "sense" to calmly think "Aha, moving gets you shot," when in reality your thought would be more like "Oh, hell, they're SHOOTING!" and flight response kicks in.
@@Cornelius87 Not every person is the same
@@kidlitfanful And not every person has these instincts
You have less of a chance of survival than the Hunger Games in the Squid Game, I would rather be in the Hunger Games where at least your survival is influenced by skill
Battle Royale was more realistic than Hunger Games.
@@reduXstereo when did the story about starving children fighting each other and genetically engineered monsters come across as intentionally realistic to you?
Depend if you come from a career district
I am more lucky than skilled, so I think I'd prefer Squid Game lol
@@leahdavis9434 what are you talking about? He’s talking about the 1999 japanese movie.
Seems like the strat to win here would be to just become a serial killer and off as many opponents in their sleep as you can between rounds.
But you want around 18 people for the glass bridge to account for mistakes!!
They cant after the first night, the tug of war teams sleep together
I don’t think killing other people gives you higher odds of surving, wouldn’t that just make the cash prize higher (my point being it wouldnt really be worth it)
Well that would just lower the odds of you winning cause the other players will also kill because youre also killing them
That was the strat of the gangster and look where that got him. He made too many enemies, and with the wrong person.
I think the ironic part is that the competition itself is set up to where multiple players can win, so a lot of the backstabbing really didn't need to happen. My biggest problem with the show itself is it went with the cliche ending of only one winner.
I mean the more people die the more money the eventual winner(s) will get. So the real greedy ones are obviously going to do some backstabbing.
There is one thing that I know from humanity: when money is involved you can trust nobody.
I think sang-woo knew he couldnt win and he couldnt afford to leave empty handed, and the poor girl was bleeding out with no one to help, it was the only way it could have ended.
I think it was more the opposite of cliche where there was only one winner instead of letting everyone's favorite character win
I mean, every person's death meant 1 million won more
I mean, if it meant more money for you wouldn't you try to make sure you were the last one standing?
I wouldn't even be a secondary character, I would die as a tertiary character
I'd like to think I'd make it through at least Red Light, Green Light, but I'd probably be the lady who died screaming.
I’d be one of the characters so insignificant to the story that I’d always be seen blurred out in the background.
Tertiary? Perhaps an extra at best - or a cg background character :v
The Squid game essentially based of the red rooms and secret deathmatches or gore themes debacles of deepweb
Essentially the main point is that the all participators and occupants shall be exterminated to put on more softened words
There is no room for any amount of survivors
No
@@lenno3240 Yes
Red rooms and deathmatches? Did this actually happen? Are their videos or testimony?
@@thelonelypilot
i know red rooms are real
dont know about deathmatches but its not impossible...
@@chongwillson972 I thought red rooms (at least the ones that have been found) are fake, fabercated, or even just prerecorded
There wasn’t a rule about only one person winning, theoretically speaking only one game splits you in half before the glass so 228. then you substract 16 and just believe every person who moves forward one dies, 214. And then the last game would split you in half again, 107. So theoretically it was fully possible for the money to be split 107 ways, then you can do your own calculations about how many ppl who would’ve died would’ve left the game and how many alive would’ve left so I’d say with all things said and done it’s a good chance for it to be 50/456 chance instead of 1
Edit: 456/2 for tug of war, 228. 228/2 for marbles, 114. Glass had 18 so, 96. Squid game would prob split you in half, 48. Take account for idiots and ppl who would’ve survived leaving, it’d be more like 20/456 chance of winning. Thanks for the comment who pointed out my mistake.
the tug of war and marbles split them in half.
@@GreatOutdoors1 dammit, i initially put 2 games but i changed it to only 1. Imma do the correct math under it
Everyone could of survived the red light/green light, honeycombe and glass bridge game. It was only marbles, tug of war and last squid game that ensured only half would survive.
@@codeXenigma true but i took away from the glass thing as the chance of that happening is so low that’s it’s astronomical someone would make it all the way. I knew i didn’t want the calculation to have them all survive that since it’s basically impossible but i didn’t feel like doing the math to see the average number of ppl who would die so i just said one every new glass since it’s the most simple way, and offers more room for fuck ups, like accidents and shit.
@@error8119 not necessarily. if they had figured out from the get go that they could have hit the glass in front of them to see which ones to go to , they could have all made it across
You don't need plot armor to win, you need to be Sang-Woo but kill Gi-Hun before the final game instead of Sae-Byeok. Kill the healthy guy with his back turned, then your opponent is a dying girl and you're virtually guaranteed to win.
yeah
Or you kill gi heun and then kill sae byeok and don't even have to play the last game
Itll be fun and games til squid game hits us with "based off a true story"
it'll be fun and games until mr beast go "today i gatheresd around 450 who decided to not subscribe"
It is.. it’s a commentary on capitalism and class
@@jacksonmcnuggets7488 Yes but I really fucking hope that Squid Game didn’t actually happen to people
😂
@@Vivigreeny25 Capitalists wish it happens often to people though
I hope there's a season 2 this was one of the best shows i have seen in a long while
IKR I would love a season two, that ending made me want more
Hopefully it's so popular right now
It’s good compared to current western media which isn’t saying much
@@litorres4125 Bet you're a type of person who hates people who aren't like you
If they did make a season 2 it just wouldnt be as good as season 1, this story was written in 2011 or somewhere around there, the guy pitched his idea at every studio but no one took it, until netflix came around and took it, so for 10 or more years he had time to refine the story, thats why its well written, making a season 2 that can live up to the quality of the first would take alot of effort.
Why I wouldn't survive the Squid Games?
Easy, I'm not the main character.
Haha there was a lot of ensign Smiths in this series
even if you were, real life doesn’t have plot armor
Do you think it's really sexism or ageism just because they didn't choose a team full of girls and old people let's not forget that the main characters team almost died if you're opposing team had some sort of strategy the main characters team would have easily died
why would i survive the squid game?
because i dont gamble.. roll credits~
Lol fr
I would've died in Red Light, Green Light, either because A.) I was one of the slowest runners in every year of P.E. Class, and would likely not reach the finish line in time, or B.) I am hypersensitive to certain loud sounds in real life like gunshots or fireworks, as soon as the shooting from the doll, started my body would be uncontrollably shaking by the time she calls out red light.
The reason people did this was because their lives were worthless to them.
Most of us here have SOMETHING to hold on to. A reason to go on. They didn't.
And that's the point. When you're at the end and somebody gives you an out, you take it. They even tried walking away but couldn't.
Good point
I don't understand why the couple didn't just quit during marbles, then executed together. that was such a tragic story :(
They could only quit if majority of the players agreed to it.
@@Danny-fy9it I think they meant essentially both giving up/resisting so they would both be eliminated
I think the wife wanted him to live on. We didn’t see it but given how much they clearly loved one another, she probably sacrificed her life so he could live.
The man had the higher chance of winning and they had children, so they probably wanted to give a good portion of that money to them, as well as at least one parent be alive for them.
@@Wadebrwright thats silly, its better to give one a chance at living especially if theyve got a family instead of having them both snuffed out
Finally, someone has made a Saw/Jigsaw comparison! While it’s not all the same, the elderly, sick man that “wants to play a game” is definitely comparable!
First thing myself and my brother compared squid games to was Saw. Do we get a cookie.
A few people watching this video would survive, I guess.
Not me, because I wouldn't have gone back after the red light/green light if I lived through it.
I know my limitations, and I'm not going to be able to handle the sound of the gunfire. At best, I'd freeze completely.
@kerosin fuchs yeah, but you are supposed to UNFREEZE on green light and I'm not sure I could pull that off
@@mmmuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiirrrrr same tho
The boss says the game needs to be equal and fair, but it’s unfair that he turned off the light after finding out that guy can tell between regular and tempered glass. You can’t just change the game in the middle of it to make it harder just cuz someone is good at it, he didn’t cheat or break any rule, so apparently you can’t survive cuz they “cheated” to make sure u don’t survive
Also, they had the maker of the games playing the games with them, giving his team an advantage with his inner knowledge. That was very unfair.
And if I somehow do win, I would have PTSD and would like go INSANE I don’t have trouble watching gore but in real life that would leave ANYONE messed up. honestly.
I was thinking the whole show, whoever got all that money would be spending most of it on the country’s best mental institution lol
It'd be cool to see a why you wouldn't survive on Alice in Borderland's death games as well
Alice in borderland is hardcore level difficult, hell if it wasn't for arisu, only 1 will leave that corridor game.
word
Me tooo
"why this look like a joji music video"
LITERALLY THE SAME FCKIN THING I THOUGHT WHEN I SAW THAT PART
haha blood bathtub and gf cheat song go brrrr
Time stamp
"Do you think you can survive the IRS after you survive the games?" Asking the real questions here lmao
I think some of those new armed 87,000 IRS agents probably worked at the Squid Games first.
I wouldn't be surprised if the people behind Squid Game owns the IRS, and other tax groups.
Wait till you find out that governments around the world had much more sinister crimes than this game made on millions and they mostly made out without any kind of punishment.
What i was wondering is how you would even claim that money on your taxes that year? Just winning billions in an illegal lottery?
@@kellylyons1038 best bet is to live modestly, and stay under the radar.
they said not everyone returned to the game after the democratic process, which means there are few people out there that have played round one and just went back to their old lives without knowing what else went down at the game
Probably used some MK Ultra on them or some Man in Black forgetting device to blank out there memory on that pacific event 😂😂😂
@@bronxmade8710 nah I think they got killed. It’s insane how long the games been around and no one has ever said a word??? Yea it’s odd. And ill nam finding ginyu after he went to the police about squid games just indicate they are always watching.
@@buincqv67 nobody ever believes them or they don’t speak on jt
They'll know soon enough once they watch Squid Game
The Black-Masked Man asked his red minions to still keep an eye on the 7% of quitters from red-light-green-light.
My theory is, they will likely give the quitters an opportunity to play the game again.
Here's how I would play:
In the first game, I would freeze like a deer in headlights and
slowly pace forward behind someone while sobbing.
In the cookie cutter, assuming I don't choose the umbrella, I will probably be fine.
If I do choose umbrella, bye-bye Tristan, you're getting shot.
In the tug of war, I would die. At least it's a quick death.
If I somehow made it to marbles, I would maybe trick
someone into giving me their marbles for setting up a game
and then give it to the guard and survive. If they get physical,
then they get shot.
For glass stepping stones, I would stuff the shoes in a shirt and hit
the glass to see which one is safe, or I would
just walk on the metal bars, since the rules
don't say anything against it.
And during the nights, I would definitely stay up in fear of being murdered and would
move around constantly trying to hide. I do not have the guts to murder anybody, though.
If, by some miracle, I get to squid game, even if I manage to stab the opponent to death, I
would probably just bleed out.
tug of war seemed anything but a quick death though lol - dont you remember that guy who was still barely alive on the floor? Broken bones and everything, must've been severely painful..Anyways they took his organs rip.
someone watched cinema summary... XD
The third and fourth is where I most likely die.
Your forgetting that you don't know the games. Also you would probably be in shock witnessing the events and not follow your plan even if you knew the games
@@Moraza4 and I can see why staying awake seems necessary, but you're going to get very disoriented at a couple of days on zero sleep, and possibly full on hallucinating by the glass bridge.
The marble episode was awesome. I like how it showed the warm side of the main character while also making it clear that he's ultimately going to save himself when it comes down to it. To me, that was one of the better episodes of TV I've seen in a while.
When I heard the name "Squid Games" for the first time I thought it was a Squidward Spin-Off Show for some stupid reason..
Can you imagine,squidward making a battle royale bc he's done with spongebob's bullshit and then grab everyone he hates,everyone in bikini bottom and uses his money from questionable jobs and watch them all dies except for spongebob and then spongebob finds patrick in the hospital and then wanting to adapt to land with sandy but changes his mind and leaves sandy to the land by herself while he goes to hunt down squidward as he starts another squid game in another place.
Halmablamha
SAME LOL 💀 And then I realized it was a Korean TV show and was so confused on why they would name it “Squid” Game 😂
Yeah! This was our first time and we are too stupid didn’t knew this series exist. I think I’m going to watch it today.
I thought it was a live action live tv version of splatoon |:
When you actually realize that "squid game" has that many games for *korea* (it was mentioned that there are squid games in every country but korea was said to be more entertaining).
Whoah let’s go. Some non zombie/monster content! You cover some exciting Korean/Asian shows
We not gonna talk about how when that guy was going through the files it said that in previous games there had been up to 30 players who won?
Yess I saw that too
that was total; it was one per time
I did the math the maximum number of winners possible if no one died outside of Marbles, tug of war and squid game is 57.
How come?
They Just would have to be super Lucky on the Glass game.
@@Eva-gc3sg There are a total of 5 games, and 3 of them require you to kill another individual. So you Just divide 456÷8=57.
But that IS assuming perfect Coordination, perfect skill, and perfect Luck from everyone until those games where you are required to kill someone else.
Not to mention surviving in between the rounds.
Whenever I watch a death game, I know I'd never survive. I'm such a coward and can't handle physical tasks. Even if by some god's grace I managed to survive even one task, the glass bridge would be the ultimate roadblock to me. I'm so scared of heights I can't go up one flight of glass staircases, nevermind a glass bridge I know is trying to kill me
Most people think like "oh I'll survive the games are easy" they don't realize in the grand scheme of things they're like one of those character never seen on screen who die in like the second game
To everyone: Don't forget that at its core this show is trying to say something about human nature and its flaws, on both sides of the game, the rich and the poor. The greed. The 'me before you' mentality. Survival mode. Like, sure there could've been more than one winner, but in a situation like this, you might not even think about that because you're so focused on winning and thereby staying alive that you might forget to be truly strategic. Also, you don't know what to expect, and the fear and confusion will change you and cloud your judgment. You would become primal, and your worst side would come out even for the best of people. A lot of things could have been handled differently and better and lots more people could have survived if not for the flaws in human nature.
If one is capable of keeping their fear of heights in check, the glass stepping stones might just be the easiest game out of the 6. Just Crash Bandicoot that shit, and tightrope walk the metal bars holding up the glass.
Would like to see "Why you wouldn't survive Danganronpa's killing game."
Among us the anime
@@cr0sad3r70 No not Among us the anime, you should say it is "Danganronpa kids version.."
@@RavenGamingOverLord thats not even close. Danganronpa's killing is planned with intricate details. Among us you can just have a partner and location alibi and that's it, Danganronpa makes sure that you weren't even in the same place as where one of the material used in the killing is kept
The more I think about it,the squad games are a more expensive and some how missed up version of the killing game.
I wouldn't even survive the first game. Especially if someone gets shot right next to me. Even if I did, I'd die from the marbel game cause I'd rather lose my life then be responsible for killing a loved one
Weak
that's bullshit
(I'm talking about what he said for the marble game here, not red light green light)
Not my fault if y'all are more selfish than me🤷♂️
I love how the people replying try to pretend they wouldn’t die in the first game like everyone else lol
@@neymiiie fr that's most likely when I would die too. Like imagine the shock of someone getting shot right next to you and you not knowing that it was a death game. I'd flinch hard enough to be detected 😭🤦♂️
was discussing this with a friend who asked me if i would survive, i said that i would until round 5 where i would jump onto the correct glass panel, but slip backwards and fall off because LOL shit balance
Knowing my luck, I would probably die before the game would even begin, tripping and falling down the stairs or something
If you die like that i woild wonder how you able to live this long.
@@miz_flamingo1470 sheer luck surprisingly
I’d be killed for meningitis my stupid self or having an anxiety attack during a game.
My view on the main character “being lucky”:
I think that the plot focuses on a certain character BECAUSE they eventually do win in the ending of the show. Not the other way around.
I think Gi Hun is the main character BECAUSE he wins in the end, and the plot would only be interesting if the main character wins (in this kind of show anyway). What I mean is that in this show, if the main character dies in the first game, would the plot be as interesting? No.
For example, if the main character was that one guy who died in the first game, it would be a short ass series that wouldn’t be interesting at all.
I think that the plot focuses on the person that wins the game to make the series not boring.
See? The main character isn’t LUCKY, the main character is the one being focused on in the series.
Saying that, however, the plot would’ve been just as interesting if Sang Woo or Sae Byeok won, but that’s only because they made it to the end as well as Gi Hun. Think about it, if Sae Byeok or Sang Woo died early, they wouldn’t have been nearly as interesting. It’s the same with the main character. If they died early, the show would not be interesting at all.
The show could’ve chosen Sae Byeok or Sang Woo, but they died in the end, and we wouldn’t have seen all the stuff that happened after the last game AND there wouldn’t be a SECOND SEASON!
That’s what I think, u can disagree if u want 😊
Of course you expect the main character to make it to the end but at the same time his ultimate win is not guaranteed specially when watching foriegn films or series. American movies are more of the overcome obstables and persevere at the end kind while foreign films I find are more of the deal with crap but still come up short at the end type of movies.
Making a show/movie/ game that are hyper realistic way is gonna boring and not interesting so damn fast
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Kaede Akamatsu : *Sweats in protagonist and first person to get executed*
I mean even I didn't know what final outcome would be. I knew the MC would have made it out alive. But I was also rooting for Ji-yeong. I did think they would win together. And when it was revealed that she was wounded by a glass shard. I literally said "oh no" out loud.
1. There wasn’t supposed to be a second season. The writer said he has no idea where season 2 is going
2. The main character had plot armor and it shows. Ali saved him in the first game. The man begged to be 1 on the glass game. It’s surprising how he survived the night that the contestants were killing each other.
3. The main character is naive and kind. That’s not how life works. People who have these attributes are taken advantage of and the reality is what happened to Ali is what was supposed to happen to the main character. He’s constantly making jokes and trusting people foolishly and speaks up to the gangster. The same gangster had no problem beating and killing other people who stood up to him but when it came to the main character for some reason he didn’t care??
Anybody who isn't hard of hearing would have died in the 1st game (unless they knew gunshots would go off) there's no way people don't jump at the 1st gun shot
That game was intentionally made hard to win based on the guns not being silenced. They wanted to weed out the large numbers for the sick entertainment.
You can see them get away with very small movements so I don’t think that would get that many people
Not saying I wouldn’t panic and run when I saw someone die next to me but if it was just a quick little jolt like what usually happens after a gunshot you’d be fine
Or autistic! Autistic people tend to not react to loud noises in typical ways.
if your response is to freeze, you might survive
Couldn’t imagine surviving past round 2 even with an easy shape - my hands are shaky at the best of times! And kudos to anyone who can carve out a perfect umbrella shape whilst people around them are being “eliminated” 😂
How To Survive
*Step 1: Be The Main Character*
Easy enough right?
died instructions not clear
What happened you friends with the main character?
@@RavenGamingOverLord yes
@@RavenGamingOverLord Then you die to serve as motivation for the main char to win.
Sweet home:
Honestly as much as how people explain how to easily beat the games shown and certain tactics in the series, it is implied that the games are randomized.
Implications:
The VIPs comment on how the Korean games is the best of them all, it could just be a generalized comment of game shows in Korea but it may as well imply that there are other variations of Squid Games in other countries. This would also imply that the games are based of childhood games in the country it takes place in if that were the case.
The VIPs did not know what the glass bridge game was about until it was revealed.
With the previous statements, we can also assume that new games are added in, therefor adding a sense of randomness on what would be the set of games. Sure there is the thing where the games are already hinted by the paintings on the wall in the bunkroom, but for all we know they could be changing the walls for every new wave of contestants.
This is just speculation in the end, as perhaps this is just a rich man's Horserace, where the rich only watch this to bet and gamble and the games are always the same. We'll never know until it's shown.
Yeah thats another thing i brought up is no matter how you prepare you wont know, even if you played before. The guys even say you arent allowed to know thr game prior to mske it an even plsying field
I'd say my death would occur at the Tug of War or during the night time fight.
1) Red Light Green Light is pretty easy.
2) The cookie one might get me since I'm bad at arts and crafts, but I know I'd pick the square or circle.
3) The Tug of War would imply I survive the night, but it's 50/50 I land on a good team.
4) As for the Night Time Fight, I'm not good at making friends, so I wouldn't have allies and would simply get jumped.
what square
The nighttime fight I would just hide the entire time. If I somehow survived all the other games there's no way I would survive the glass jumping game
@@Dantheman-bw8hv no theres a strat to it to glass game, you can live
Someone could knock you over in Red Light Green Light though, like during that scene everyone just started panic-running
@@internetspectator6051 none of us would know it ahead of time though.
If I was ji-yeong and survived long enough to get in her position, I would've done exactly what she did for sae-byeok so I'd be dead then lol
Tug of War: “For a large majority of us, a lot of us are going to be falling to our deaths.”
It’s literally half. The odds aren’t 50-50, wrestlers have higher odds than old men, but as for the number of people eliminated it is literally half.
You could still die while being on the winning team, by simply falling off at any time.
But that would only be a slight majority
@@capitalists1526 They were chained to the rope so there's no way a person from the winning team dies unless everyone in the team falls and dies.
@@Cornelius87 That's true, however, they weren't chained when they were walking toward the area, so could die before the game itself started.
Anyone else found it crazy the games were always on the walls the entire time
oh shit they were always there ?
I thought they were put up after they were played
They were cover
Idk why the show did that, I feel like irl people woulda discovered that the first day
The old guy just laughs while everyone gets bodied around him😂
“Lol, this is fun, why’s everybody bored?”
when i first watched it i thought 'aww he's so cute he's too old and confused to know what's going on'....i shoulda seen it coming. fuck that guy
@@lucyhannah1227 That was my first thought too. Oh...his dementia is making him remember his childhood and forget the danger...so sad. Heh.
Don’t forget, it’s not just “fight or flight” … there’s 5 amygdala responses including a very helpful “freeze”
Imagine winning the squid game and making half as much as xqc does in a month
The odds are too high for me to do something like that.
Squid game prize is 38 mil in u.s. currency, hes not worth 38 mil in total so idk what you smoking
@@JKennyPro yea lmao that’s how much he might make in like 15 years
The marbles game does not require 20 marbles. It requires you to have the other player’s ten marbles without violence. Each pair could swap their marbles and both satisfy the win criterion.
It literally says take their marbles which would mean they get 20 marbles moron
@@BonnieSypula-ts7oo
…I believe he’s trying to say that you would have all of their original marbles, while they have all of yours if you switched; it’s one of those fine print/thinking outside the box kind of things that guards may allow them to do. Kinda like how he licked the cookie to dissolve it instead of using the needle they provided (as they didn’t say that you had to use the needle to get it out) or how like in tempered glass game where they might have been able to check if it was tempered by kicking the glass directly in front of them while sitting on the edge of the one they’re currently on.
“Adapt and overcome”
Do you guys think that would actually work these games aren’t actually a legitimate process. They wouldn’t actually be like “holy shit you are right you pass”. They would tell you just to follow the rules. I’ve seen so many people comment this and it’s stupid as shit
@@nateclark8208 they only force players to follow the rules in red light green light. No guards shoot Han mi Nyeo and deok su for using a lighter to heat the needle, nobody shoots gi heun for licking the cookie, nobody shoots sang woo or gi heun for deceiving their partners in marbles.
@@mappingshaman5280 because the rules are to get 20 marbles without using violence they just recommend you play a game
"Why you wouldn't survive squid game"
The people who won from decades ago to today:
The behind the scenes videos are very interesting. For the Tug of War game the teams didn’t compete against each other they were actually pulling a robot and then the scenes were put together.
I saw a few interviews they said the games were hard and the honeycomb game they had to piece together cause they were breaking. A couple of the actors who survived or was supposed said that was the hardest cause it kept breaking
How about for Glass Stepping Stones, everyone takes off their shoes and drops them on the glass.
@Doppelganger D With enough force I'm sure they would break the glass, though I'm sure the guards would never allow this to happen. It was just a thought.
Or you can put several shoes in a jacket tie up the loose ends and then slam it on the glass in front of you