![]() Players sabotage each other to get ahead with only three of them getting to the end, Sang-woo, Gi hun and Se-byeok. The wrong choice means the glass will shatter under their weight, sending them down to their doom. With two adjacent bridges, the players have to choose between a normal glass or a tempered glass step. The fifth game is revealed to be glass stepping stones. On the outside, a search is carried out for Jun-ho, who’s running his own investigation to find out the truth behind this sick game. Sang-woo is close to losing when he decides to trick Ali into giving him all the marbles, Gi-hun takes advantage of Il-nam’s dementia to get through to the next round.Ī group of wealthy VIP’s arrive at the island to witness the final two games in person, betting on the competitors to make things more interesting. Sang-woo joins up the simple Ali Abdul (Tripati Anupam) while Gi-hun teams up with Il-nam. The twist is that players in each team actually play each other. The masked men instruct the players to make teams of two for the next game which turns out to be marbles. The third game contested is the Tug-of-War, and despite having a weaker team on paper, Gi-hun and his group survive thanks to the sage advice of the elderly Oh Il-nam (Oh Young-soo) and some quick thinking by Sang-woo. Despite getting the umbrella shape, Gi-hun figures out a trick to make things easier and survives the second game as well.Īlliances begin to form among the players and after an altercation leads to the death of a player with no real consequences, a riot breaks out at night to thin out the herd. Thanks to a hint from Kang Se-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon) who had sneaked through the vents earlier, Sang-woo guesses what the game is but doesn’t share that knowledge with Gi-hun. ![]() The players have to carve out a particular shape from a biscuit without breaking it. The next game they’re made to play is sugar honeycombs. This time, a detective named Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), manages to sneak aboard the ship to the venue in search of his missing brother. After spending a few days outside and realizing that their lives are no better, most of the contestants decide to return. The Majority vote for the game to end and they’re all released with the offer to return and continue the game still open. By the end, almost half of all the players are eliminated with the rest in shock regarding what they have signed on for.īringing up one of the rules of the contract, they decide to have a vote to leave the game. ![]() Everyone starts panicking and is subsequently shot down until the remaining players decide to actually play the game. However, in a horrible twist, if a player is caught in this game, elimination equates to death. The first game they have to play is ‘Red light, Green light’. It is revealed that he is actually charged with fraud and embezzlement, which is why he finds himself in this predicament. When one contestant questions why they should play after they were drugged and had their belongings taken from them, the masked men remind the players that each and every one of them is under a lot of debt and this game is key to their survival.Īt the venue, Gi-hun meets his childhood friend Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) who’s supposed to be a university graduate and currently abroad on a business trip. A group of men in masks come to explain that they’ll have to play 6 games and win them all in order to get the prize money. They all wake up in a room with beds and wearing numbered jumpsuits. The people who agreed to play are picked up and taken to an undisclosed location. After much contemplation, he calls the number and agrees to take part. Along with that, he’s given a card with a phone number, an offer to join a game that promises to be the solution to the end of all his problems. If Gi-hun wins a round, he’ll be paid 100,000 won, but if he loses a round, the gentleman slaps him in return.Īfter multiple rounds of failure, Gi-hun finally wins one and is given the money. That night at a subway station, he meets a well-suited gentleman who offers to play a fairly simple children’s game with a catch. The collectors catch up with him and make him sign a physical contract promising his organs in case of any more delays in payment. He lucks out at the track and wins a lot of money but he runs into some debt collectors and while trying to get away from them, he’s pickpocketed by a young girl. He’s knee-deep in debt and uses up the money his mother lends him to feed a troublesome betting habit. Gi-hun is a divorcee with a young daughter who he has made a habit of disappointing. The story starts off with the focus on Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a lazy but well-meaning man who’s living on the back of his elderly mother’s meagre income.
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