Squid Game Season 3: The Final 3 Games Explained!

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The beloved series “Squid Game” has returned to our television sets, bringing along a new round of intense, compulsory challenges. These challenges are aimed at the participants who aspire to win the colossal prize pool for themselves.

In the second series of the popular drama, we were introduced to additional Korean pastimes like the intricate game of Gonggi, making it one of the toughest stages within the demanding six-stage pentathlon.

Audience members were equally captivated by the eerie interpretation of Mingle, where participants needed to enter rooms with the right count following a playful adaptation of a merry-go-round. A wrong move could lead to fatal outcomes.

Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has been tight-lipped about which games would feature in the third and concluding season of Squid Game. However, as each episode unfolds on Netflix, more information about the games is coming to light.

Here’s your guide to the three terrifying games in Squid Game season 3.

Game 1: Hide and Seek

As a movie enthusiast, I might rephrase it like this: “How do you participate in the creepy version of Hide and Seek from Squid Game? The twist here is that the game master uses a gumball machine to determine who will be the hiders and who will be the seekers.

Before the match starts, players can switch positions with another willing teammate, but these arrangements are absolutely forbidden once the action begins.

In intricate labyrinths filled with chambers and passageways, I’m often given a slight advantage, a fleeting head start, to outmaneuver those who are hot on my trail.

With keys hanging from their necks, they’re able to unfasten doors leading them into fresh areas of the labyrinth. However, these doors can’t be locked once opened – so each open passageway serves as a hint to explorers about their current position within the maze.

It turns out that the locks on the exit doors come in various shapes – squares, circles, and triangles. This means that the hiders need to either group together in threes or collect all three types of keys to successfully navigate through the maze and find their way out.

In essence, the role of the searchers is more straightforward; they need to locate and eliminate the concealers before the countdown ends, or they too will be eliminated. It’s important to note that a searcher cannot kill another searcher.

Game 2: Jump Rope

As a movie reviewer, I’d put it this way: “In this thrilling game of Squid, the challenge lies in leaping over an enormous mechanical jump rope that stretches across the playing field, all while racing towards the finish line. It’s a simple concept with high stakes, making every leap count!

The challenge lies in the fact that the route to safety consists of a thin bridge spanning a vast abyss. If players don’t jump precisely at the right moment, they fall into the abyss with fatal consequences.

In this task, having a fear of heights, difficulties with mobility, or poor time management skills can lead to disaster, and it doesn’t help that other competitors employ harsh and unfriendly tactics.

Game 3: Sky Squid Game

What is the method for playing the game called Sky Squid, which involves more negotiations and deceit rather than its namesake, a popular Korean playground game?

Instead of tracing simple shapes like circles, triangles, and squares on the ground, these structures have evolved into multi-story platforms. At least one competitor must be removed from each of these stages. The surviving players are then left to mutually decide who should be eliminated in each round.

According to these regulations, multiple contestants could potentially win the massive prize in the Squid Game, but their avarice leads them to quickly try reducing the number of competitors for a bigger piece of the winnings.

In other words, such self-centered actions are exactly what The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) anticipates will trigger a dilemma among his followers, one that seems impossible to resolve and will likely culminate in the resolution of the storyline in season 3.

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2025-06-27 13:38