All the team work talk, all the "we're going to get outta here" talk, all the friendships, etc. Did they just avoid the elephant in the room on purpose? Which is the fact that there could only be one winner and they would have to kill each other. Even till the end, 456 was talking to North Korean Girl like they were going to get out together. I just found it odd that no one ever talked about how there could only be one winner.
shareyes of course but a few times they kind of address this ''issue'' but i guess participants try not to think about it.
to me the elephant in the room is the ridiculous odds of dying, only 1 out of 450 participants or something will survive, so 99,8% chances of dying, even for all the money in the world no one would actually take part, it would make more sense if the last 20 or 50 participants survive and share the huge prize money, for really desperate people those odds would be reasonable.
i think u underestimate how many desperate people there are in this world. if this was real i am sure there would be a lot of hardcore psychopaths who would be down to do. its 100,000,000$ per kill. people shoot each other over literally a couple dollars in the hood, even if the odds are bad they are still really good compared to any other way of making that money
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I do wonder if they actually knew that only one person would survive the games.
actually i re-watched the part in the first episode where the boss tells them the rule and actually he doesn't specify there has to be only one winner, he only says something about finishing the 6 games, so i was wrong i thought there could only be one winner.
shareExactly! This is what I myself wanted to add, but you beat me to it.
They say something to the effect of "You get the prize money if you survive the 6th game". At the very beginning of the series, when they explain the Squid game, they even make a point about there being attacker teams and defending teams. So it is perfectly reasonable to assume that when more than two people make it into the final, they are divided into teams, and the winning team (consisting of howerver many people) can walk away with the prize.
So when it was down to 2 people, of course there will be only one winner, since there are no "teams" to speak of. Had the NK girl made it into the finale, I think they would have allowed a 2v1 situation, and obviously 456 and NK girl would have been together, and most likely won. That way they could have walked away with the cash.
Did they ever actually state there can only be one winner? All I heard was that you must complete all 6 games to win. The last game could be played on teams, so I see no reason two or three couldnt win.
shareI don't think they ever said there can be only one. When they were down to three, Gi-Hun was the only who thought they all had a chance. Sae-Byeok said there could be only one as she was bleeding and Sang Woo killed her to eliminate the competition. I would have preferred an ending where all three split the prize but the wicked VIP's want to see bloodshed.
shareSang woo killed her because she and Gi-Hun would have voted to end the game
shareI can't remember everything stated in the first couple of episodes but I read this comment elsewhere. So you're probably right
shareWhat I don't get is, that one scene where there was a crazy riot and people were getting murdered...how come the guards didn't care? I thought the idea was to keep things "fair" unlike the outside world (although I understand hardly anything was fair regarding these games).
Because if the guards didn't care that scores of contestants that were so carefully vetted and gathered up can be injured or literally murdered in their sleep on the second or third night, then what is to stop future groups from even greater riots and mass murdering and ending the game fast?
But I guess VIPs don't care about losing contestants so quickly and life is expendable to them, and money is endless. Maybe I've answered my own question.
I think the GAMES itself must be fair. Leading up to the game, all bets are off. Which is a little conflicting and contradictory to the game's supposed honor code. At the end of the bridge game where the glass exploded, simply for show, it basically took away 90% of the health of the Korean girl, so that wasn't fair either. If this was real world, and they are true to their honor code, then I wonder if she complained about the accident, if they would send medical help or let her leave. Or, they can simply say the bridge pyrotechnic is part of the game, and you had to dodge the shards.
shareThe fight itself was fair, so that's also ok, I guess.
shareThe glass exploding you can say that it was fair as well: it wasn't intended to affect any of them more than others.
It was just bad luck that the girl got hit worse but it wasn't targeted at her.
We the viewers know that there will be only one winner because of the list of winners from previous games (always one). But the players have no idea but at the rate the numbers are being winnowed down they probably would suspect it might be the case.
shareGood point.
We may think there is a possibility of more than one winner but the reality (well not reality as we're talking fiction here but you know what I mean...) is that they'd always manipulate / set the final game so there would only be one winner.
There can be more than one winner.
How? Do you mean how they can just say they want to stop the game? Money doesn't go to them if they vote to stop. Otherwise.. please explain.
shareSquid game is a team game so it could have been a 2 vs. 2 or a 3 vs. 3 depending on how many people made it across the glass bridge. I wonder if Gi-Hun would have picked Sang Woo as his partner in squid game assuming there were four people who survived the glass bridge.
shareWell, for example:
If Sang-woo wouldn't have killed Sae-byeok and she would survived that night the game would had been 2 vs 1 with a very possible outcome of 2 winners.
There was a good chance more than 2 people landing the last game, which is a team vs team game. So a team would have won.
So at least theoretically there can be multiple winners.
That’s what I thought but tbat greed and the dehumanizing violence of the games would drive the final players to turn on each other.
shareThe Game Masters were a-holes. Nothing about them made me think they would allow such scenario. If it was 2 vs 1 at the end, and they kill Sang Woo, I don't believe the game ends. They would want them to fight until there is one. The old man, #1, is batshit crazy. The fact that he would green light turning off the lights at night so the strong can eliminate the weak. Dude is old as hell, and cold as hell.
shareThey never said it could only be one..
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