Every Game in Squid Game, Ranked By Difficulty Level

This nonfiction contains spoilers for Squid Game Season 3.

Squid Game Season 3 is here. The last crippled has been played, the victor declared, and thing volition ever beryllium the aforesaid – astatine slightest until Netflix gets going with Squid Game: American Style. Regardless, you cognize what that means… We tin yet fertile each the games, baby!

Specifically, we’re going to fertile the games not by however chill oregon deadly they are successful the 3 seasons of the series, but by existent trouble level. Because you whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person noticed, the happening that makes each of the games trickiest is that quality quality gets successful the way. Sure, strategy and sizing up your hostile is going to play successful immoderate game, from Monopoly to Football. But with plentifulness of fans inexplicably playing (hopefully) non-deadly versions of Squid Game astatine location oregon astatine Netflix pop-up experiences, immoderate are people going to beryllium easier than others.

With that successful mind, let’s interruption down each crippled successful Squid Game, ranked by level of real-world trouble (and arsenic a note, this was written earlier watching Season 3, Episode 6, truthful if determination are immoderate past 2nd astonishment games we’ll adhd successful later).

Unranked: Special Game/Bathroom Fight/Revolt

There are respective sequences successful Squid Game that are portion of the wide games, but would not beryllium considered games, per say. For example, the “special game” successful Season 1 erstwhile the lights spell retired and everyone tries to termination each other, oregon the bath combat successful Season 2. Similarly, portion the revolt towards the extremity of Season 2 is portion of the intelligence chess crippled betwixt Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and Hwang In-ho, aka The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun), it is besides not really a game. Imagine asking your friends “hey bash you privation to play peculiar game” and past you crook retired the lights and effort to termination them? You’d apt not beryllium invited backmost to parties, is each we’re saying.

15. Russian Roulette

As seen successful Season 2, Episode 1, this is ranked towards the bottommost due to the fact that it isn’t a hard crippled to play. The Squid Game twist present is that they lone rotation the enclosure once, versus betwixt each crook similar a “normal” crippled of Russian Roulette. There’s nary accomplishment involved, it’s axenic luck, and adjacent little luck successful this variation. You conscionable propulsion a trigger and by crook six, 1 of the 2 players is dead. Deadly level? Pretty high. Difficulty level? Extremely low.

14. Bread and Lottery

Another elemental crippled from Season 2, Episode 1, The Recruiter (Gong Yoo) approaches unhoused radical successful a parkland and offers a loaf of bread, oregon a lottery ticket. At the extremity of the “game” helium stamps connected each of the remaining bread. That’s it! As agelong arsenic you cognize however to marque a choice, you tin play this game.

13. Sky Squid Game

The 1 archetypal crippled successful the series, this is introduced successful Season 3, Episode 5, and uh… It’s utter nonsense. There are 3 ample pillars: a square, a triangle, and a circle. The rules are that 1 idiosyncratic needs to get pushed disconnected portion inactive alive, and past everyone other tin determination on. However, if cipher has been pushed disconnected successful the allotted time, past everyone dies. To adhd to the crippled they person each the clip they privation to discuss, the timer doesn’t commencement until they property a fastener connected the floor. And there’s a agelong metallic rod successful the halfway they tin usage to propulsion radical off.

There is some strategy present successful the premix connected the amusement due to the fact that Gi-hun and Player 222, who is simply a babe (not a joke), are considered 2 antithetic players. So the different folks would truly similar to propulsion them disconnected separately, connected consequent pillars. But successful presumption of playing this crippled successful the existent satellite there’s nary existent strategy different than poke idiosyncratic with a rod until they autumn down.

12. Hide and Seek

Introduced successful Season 3, Episode 1, and played successful Episode 2, the Squid Game mentation of Hide and Seek has a fewer variations. First, the seekers each person knives. Second, the hiders person keys they tin usage to unfastened doors – with 3 antithetic types of keys disposable (did you conjecture they were circle, triangle, and quadrate keys? Because they are). The hiders get a caput start, and tin fell anyplace connected the multi-level maze. They either request to flight oregon not get caught during the 30-minute game. Meanwhile, the seekers person 30-minutes to find the hiders and termination them. If they neglect to termination anyone, they’ll beryllium killed themselves.

Other than the knives, this is beauteous akin to a crippled of fell and seek. And arsenic it plays retired successful the show, there’s a batch of hiding, a batch of seeking, and occasionally immoderate scuffling and stabbing… For the astir part, erstwhile a seeker finds someone, they stab them and termination them and that’s the extremity of it.

To beryllium fair, this full happening is decidedly skewed successful the hiders direction, it’s much easier connected their end, which is wherefore this is ranked truthful comparatively low. On the seekers extremity it’s a small much difficult. But lone a little. They person knives, aft all.

11. Marbles

As seen successful Season 1, Episode 6, the Marbles crippled is wide open: 2 radical play a crippled of marbles, immoderate rules they want. Whoever takes the other’s marbles, wins. The loser dies (unless they’re an aged antheral who is secretly moving the game).

It’s hard to quantify this 1 connected trouble level mostly due to the fact that it tin beryllium immoderate marble crippled imaginable. But since immoderate marbles games bash impact accomplishment (other than the instances wherever a subordinate is aiming to propulsion the crippled to fto the different subordinate live) it’ll beryllium present towards but not astatine the bottom.

10. Jump Rope

A riff connected Season 1’s iconic Glass Bridge (more connected that successful a bit), Season 3, Episode 3 introduces a bladed span with a breached way successful the middle, and a large, highly coagulated “jump rope” that rotates past the span astatine an expanding rate. Meaning to cross, you request to run, jump, run, jump, until you get to the end.

This doesn’t look that casual arsenic it takes a batch of coordination connected a bladed bridge, but arsenic we spot connected the show… Everyone, different than the babe and the baby’s parent (who broke her ankle) tin implicit the task beauteous easily. The contented comes from a clump of dudes who determine to propulsion radical disconnected the bridge. But different contempt however hard this seems astatine archetypal glance, it’s truly lone quality quality that causes a occupation here.

9. Tug-of-War

On the surface, determination shouldn’t beryllium overmuch strategy progressive successful Tug of War. You pull. The different squad pulls. One squad wins. But arsenic demonstrated by Oh Il-nam (O Yeong-su) successful Season 1, Episode 4, determination really is simply a just magnitude of nuance that comes in, based connected the strengths and weaknesses of each team. In fact, contempt having the “weaker” team, Gi-hun and institution triumph by outthinking their opposition. There aren’t a batch of rules present different than “pull,” but if Squid Game convinced viewers of anything, it’s that Tug-of-War is simply a small much “war” than “tug.”

8. Red Light, Green Light

The archetypal crippled played successful the arena successful some Season 1 and Season 2, Young-hee (that would beryllium the monolithic doll who looms implicit the players) calls retired greenish light, and everyone runs; and past reddish light, and everyone stops. If idiosyncratic moves erstwhile she’s said reddish light, they die. It’s a elemental carnal test, but fixed however galore generations of schoolyards person played this crippled wherever it does ever extremity up with 1 winner, you astir apt already cognize this is much hard to execute than it seems connected the surface.

7. Mingle

First seen successful Season 2, Episode 6, this is fundamentally a much analyzable mentation of philharmonic chairs… Of death!! The players are each spun astir connected a carousel, a fig is called out, and past the players request to articulation successful a radical of that fig and fastener themselves successful a country together. As the surviving players are whittled down, it becomes much hard and much cutthroat.

There is simply a astonishing magnitude of gamesmanship progressive here, though there’s besides manipulation from the gamesmaster successful bid to destruct players and find a winner. Mind you, the mode it’s executed successful the amusement is mostly to make wide decease to whittle down the fig of players successful the game. But adjacent without the fearfulness of getting shot, a batch of winning astatine Mingle involves making alliances connected the fly, shifting those alliances, and figuring retired what to bash if you abruptly find idiosyncratic other successful the country you’re aiming for, with clip moving out.

6. Squid Game

The rules to the titular Squid Game are… Very complicated? One subordinate is discourtesy and tin lone hop connected 1 ft extracurricular the squid-shaped court. The different is defence and tin determination connected some feet, wrong the court. Then erstwhile discourtesy has passed the cervix of the squid, they effort to get to the apical of the squid and pat it with their foot, earlier they’re pushed retired and “killed.” Or killed without the quotation marks successful the lawsuit of the Season 1 finale.

Beyond keeping each the rules of Squid Game straight, there’s keeping an oculus connected your opponent, carnal prowess, and science that play into Squid Game. It’s tricky, adjacent if you are expected to beryllium capable to casually play it connected a schoolyard.

5. Ddakji

The crippled that started it all, the extremity is instrumentality a quadrate of paper, propulsion it astatine the different players quadrate of insubstantial connected the ground, and marque it flip over. That’s the agelong and the abbreviated of it, but portion it is imaginable to bash this, it is extremely hard to do – arsenic seen successful the archetypal occurrence of the series, wherever Gi-hun loses astir a cardinal times successful a row. To beryllium clear, determination are apt radical this benignant of happening is casual for; but for astir of us, this is simply a task of precision and practice.

4. Rock Paper Scissors, Minus One

This amped up mentation of Rock Paper Scissors is besides introduced successful Season 2, Episode 1, and lad are determination a batch of parts to it. You play the accepted game, but with some hands, and past some players propulsion distant 1 of their hands. So there’s the intelligence guessing crippled of your regular Rock Paper Scissors, times two: you person to effort to fig retired what your hostile is going to enactment retired successful the archetypal round, and past what they’re going to propulsion away.

If that wasn’t analyzable enough, the Recruiter adds that the loser needs to play accepted Russian Roulette (i.e., spinning the chamber). As we’ve established there’s nary accomplishment progressive successful playing Russian Roulette, but what this adds is time betwixt rounds of Rock Paper Scissors. The lone existent mode of beating idiosyncratic astatine RPS is getting a consciousness of what they mightiness bash adjacent based connected what they deliberation you volition bash next. These other steps marque the full process much complicated, and acold harder to win. Surprisingly complex!

3. Dalgona

Probably the astir fashionable crippled to travel retired of Squid Game Season 1 and seizure the imaginativeness of the existent world, the Dalgona candy crippled involves popping a signifier retired of the honeycomb candy intact. In the amusement if you interruption it, you die. In the existent satellite if you interruption it, you lose. Some shapes are easy, for sure, but this is highly tricky with much analyzable shapes, arsenic millions person realized since Season 1 dropped… And adjacent tricky with immoderate of the elemental shapes, arsenic well.

2. Six-Legged Pentathlon (mini-games: Ddakji, Biseokchigi, Gonggi, Paengi Chigi, Jegi)

The 2nd “game” successful Season 2 is really 5 mini-games arsenic good arsenic a six-legged race. To punctuation BoJack Horseman: that’s excessively much, man! The games see Ddakji, which is hard connected its ain arsenic we’ve already established. Then there’s Biseokchigi, aka Flying Stone, wherever you request to sound implicit a chromatic with different chromatic and if you miss, each six legs request to locomotion implicit and prime it up. Next up is Gong-gi, which involves throwing dice successful the aerial successful assorted combinations, ending with catching them on the backmost of your hand. Paengi Chigi, aka Spinning Top, is up next, and you person to wrapper a cord astir a top, propulsion it, rotation it, and if you don’t erstwhile again everyone has to locomotion implicit and prime it up. And yet there’s Jegi, which involves bouncing a small insubstantial wrapped astir a coin successful the aerial 5 times connected your ft oregon ankle.

Any 1 of these would beryllium – and is – hard connected its own. Together this is simply a adjacent intolerable and frustrating task that would crook from squad gathering workout to wide quitting connected a institution retreat.

1. Glass Bridge

Difficulty level? Impossible. As seen successful Episode 7 of Season 1, the solid span features 2 paths of 18 solid tiles each. On 1 side, the solid is tempered and capable to clasp the value of 2 people. On the other, it breaks instantly. And you don’t cognize which is which.

There’s an statement to beryllium made present that similar Russian Roulette, this is wholly chance. Except there’s a batch much to it. As we learn, Do Jung-soo (Lee Sang-hee) worked successful a solid mill for years and was capable to fig retired which portion of solid was which, based connected the refraction of light. Naturally, they crook disconnected the lights… To which Do Jung-soo was capable to trial the solid by hitting it with a marble. Unfortunately, the folks down him became impatient – determination were lone 16 minutes to transverse – and threw him disconnected the bridge.

So successful fact, determination are astatine slightest 2 ways to archer the quality betwixt the breakable and non-breakable glass. You conscionable request to person an intimate and life-long cognition of however solid works. Barring that, though, there’s the intelligence value of second-guessing your prime based connected what you think is going to interruption that volition thrust you rapidly insane arsenic you play. For that alone, this takes the fig 1 spot. Just don’t leap connected this ranking to trial however fragile it is.