[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers about Squid Game Season 2.]
Greater than three years after Squid Recreation took the watching world by storm, the Netflix sensation is formally again and bloodier than ever. Season 2, which premiered on December 26, introduced Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-jae) again into the macabre survival video games, thrusting him again into an area that’s each acquainted and fully new.
Whereas a number of the places and video games of Squid Recreation Season 2 are (principally) the identical ones we noticed in Season 1, like “Purple Gentle Inexperienced Gentle,” “Ddjaki,” and the midnight battle-ready group sleeping quarters, others are new to the season.
Right here’s a have a look at the entire new video games in Season 2, defined.
Bread and Lottery
The primary new recreation of the season comes lengthy earlier than anybody steps foot onto the island. Within the first episode of the brand new season, we see The Salesman (Gong Yoo) strolling round to vagabonds in a park and providing them a selection of both a roll of bread or a lottery ticket. In each case, they select the lottery ticket and lose. In the long run, he’s left holding two baskets filled with contemporary bread and proceeds to trample throughout them in entrance of the hungry on-lookers who declined the actual meals in entrance of them for an unlikely likelihood at one thing extra.
Six-Legged Pentathlon
That is primarily a five-person model of the three-legged race with 5 stops alongside the monitor. The 5 crew members all had their interior legs sure collectively and needed to transfer as a single unit by the course, which featured 5 video games for the gamers to finish, one by one, earlier than the end line. Every participant lined up so as of their designated recreation.
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Flying Stone
The idea of this one is straightforward sufficient, however, as we see within the present, that doesn’t imply it’s simple to execute. The second recreation within the pentathlon — after ddjaki — requires the participant to throw a stone to knock down one other stone set out at a sure distance. It requires intention and simply the correct quantity of power to drag it off, and, if the participant misses, your complete squad has to work collectively to maneuver ahead and retrieve it and get again behind the road to attempt once more.
Gong-gi
This Korean kids’s recreation is also called Jacks and Seven Stones. The participant has 5 small items that they need to throw a stone up and decide up one other stone and repeat till all 5 have been caught. Then, the method begins over, with the participant choosing up two stones at a time, then three. The fourth step requires the participant to throw one stone within the air and drop 4, then toss the stone once more and decide up the opposite 4. The ultimate trick is to toss all 5 stones within the air, catch them on the again of their hand, after which toss them up once more and catch all of them of their palm.
Spinning Prime
The purpose of this model on Squid Recreation is to tie the string across the base after which sling it ahead with sufficient velocity that the highest spins on the bottom.
Jegi
This outdoor-friendly recreation encompasses a paper toy known as a jegi that the participant should kick in an effort to maintain it within the air. It’s much like the Western recreation hacky sack or footbag. That is the fifth and remaining recreation within the pentathlon.
Mingle
This recreation is much like musical chairs, in that gamers are made to wander individually round an area till a sure quantity known as out, they usually need to accomplice up into teams of that quantity earlier than the time runs out. On this case, the outcomes of not discovering the appropriate measurement group are lethal.
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Are there extra video games forward?
In Squid Recreation‘s first season, the video games the characters in the end performed have been hinted at within the wall artwork within the group dormitory. Within the backdrop of this season’s video games, it seems like there could also be one other recreation indicated on the partitions, that includes individuals hanging and swinging from one spike to a different, like with monkey bars.
We’ll have to attend till Squid Recreation Season 3 arrives to seek out out.
Squid Recreation, Season 2, Streaming now, Netflix