Top 10 Smartest Decisions in Squid Game 

I literally felt sick to my stomach when he did that to him 😩 It was a smart evil move though

My brother kept calling him a monster the whole time…and he was right 😂

That's the fun and cruel irony of the situation. You feel bad for Ali for getting stabbed in the back (and literally shot in the head), but at the same point... How many people would have done the same thing in the given situation? Yeah, would have been noble to have just accepted your death, but a good sum of people would have likely tossed their morals out the window if it came down to who is getting shot in the head.

Sang Woo the best character by far.

I won’t ever betray a nice

Well it’s just a series but yea

What does teaching kids those things have to do him dying. 🤔

Well I honestly thought it was because he pretty much saved gi-hun in episode 1 but got screwed in episode 6 because 218 wanted to be a bitch

@@kindsir0077 because the kindness, that Ali's parents probably teached him. Let him to dying?

Humans are like that they do anything to survive

What if they would have lost tug of war though?

@@jrich5795 They didn’t though. Man literally gave them the formula for winning and knew the genius would pull through.

@@fuckyoutube1999 They had 3 girls and one feeble old man. And dude came up with that plan out of desperation.

@@brooklinreason7255 Everyone would have seen him slip out though. They also let the slaughter go on for a while before they stopped it. He could have easily died. I think its just an oversight no one would really think about.

@@fuckyoutube1999 It was a literal hail mary that somehow worked

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I agree

It's the smartest move regardless of the numbers. So no the lighter was much smarter than licking it. Licking took forever to be sure it comes out right. The lighter got it out quicker. So it was more clever.

@@pennyproud1621 but she was the only one with a lighter is my point. You give anyone a lighter and I think they would come up with that. No one else had the lighter, but were being executed left and right because they didn't think of licking it.

@@pennyproud1621 it would be like if I gave you and you only a razor blade and said you were the smartest out of everyone for using the tool that only you had.

by turning the lights off the mid boss betrayed the rule he himself did set up some episodes before when he SHOT an employee that caused inequity.

@@CinceTheDay It is suggested that the VIPs, while not directly in the facility's ranks, are still above the Frontman and host in authority, not to mention they are all dangerous psychos willing to kill anyone at any time. The Frontman simply appeased his "superiors" even though it went against his principles, to avoid severe consequences for himself.

I couldn’t agree more. Front man went against his own rules

@@KenDaKingArrives Now I’m thinking the “we value equality and giving everyone a fair chance at winning” spiel was all just for show for the contestants.

@@nissan_skyline Hard to say. He did kill those staff members and the doctor for the leg up they were giving him knowing games beforehand.

yesss 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

And the dumbest was voicing the English dub

@@markerikson7423 ewwwww thats even worse than supporting lisa gaming roblox

@@markerikson7423 how is the dub bad

@@markerikson7423 the dub wasn't actually had the voices really fit most of the characters

The most emotional episode

And they said you're playing this in twos, not 1v1

@@jerrygil1965 yea

why didnt they vote to stop the game lol

that was the evil genius of that game though - tell people to pick a partner - everyone is gonna pick their closest friend or whatever there. Then, you have to kill them. Ensures the following games are even more cutthroat.

I love the music

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Same guy who composed the soundtrack for parasite

percussion during tug-of-war, so intense that most people ignore the style of this soundtrack

Well, one of the songs they played a lot is johan strauss ll's the blue danube. Old classical song.

Even he could not get through the main character plot armor of Gi-Hun

You could argue that his strategy in the second game was flawed. He knew what was coming but nevertheless risked the life of all his teammates. Of course you could justify this by saying he wanted to get rid of Il-nam (no benefit from him) and Gi-Hun (great threat as sang woo knew he was good at most games) but if he wanted gi-hun to die he could have simply let him die in the first game (instead of encouraging him to finish the game)

Exactly. He thought like a business man. Cold and calculating and logical and absolutely ruthless. He did whatever it took to survive and that’s why he almost won.

@@Richardlizhu Eh, not really. Such was the nature of his character development and redemption arc. The game is such that there must almost certainly be a winner; whoever won is the main character. Plot armor makes no sense to invoke here and them killing each other at the end would have been dull. Many characters are sufficiently well developed that the winner is in a sense arbitrary. Had they won, the story would have followed them instead and the show's core, a meditation on the human condition would have remained intact. --- Imagine a game where 450 players have to correctly guess 6 coin tosses and each toss is dressed as a death game. Having at least one (or even 3-4) winners would not be surprising. Follow the path of the first loser and the show is over right away. Pick any other character but the final one and you're left with loose ends. Ergo we're constrained to follow whoever won, whether by luck or skill. Notice: following the story of whoever won and calling their guessing all tosses correctly plot armor would clearly be a strange complaint to make.

@@madelinegarber7860 SNU baby!

@@AahanaS I disagree. Lol like Soo was saying “Gi-Hun always asks questions like idiot instead of just letting things play out, in doing this very thing when he make the call at the end proves this. Thus leaving his daughter fatherless again 🤦🏾‍♀️

Exactly like come on dude you just survived a death race and still ain’t being a good dad

Exactly! His whole reason for joining the games was to visit his daughter. I was so much angrier then I should’ve been 😆

How else would they make season 2 Have a squid game in America and him stop in it there

@@Orion_Nightshade start the season off with him seeing his daughter and then have him travel back??? I don’t know 😆

He’s my favorite in the series. Jun ho is THE best character

I just wish it didn’t lead to disappointment😭. I hope he survived the fall

14 smart (if still poor) individuals, indeed!

They might not be safe at all. Remember that the black mask guy gave an order to keep an eye on those who didn't return. That kinda hinted that they would get killed off screen. Although, the old man was pretty strong on his rules.

They got killed for not joining the game, that's the rule

They didn't break any rule. They voted to not not play anymore, then said they will allow those who still want to play, come back. And being watched doesn't mean killed off screen, I didn't get that impression. Who knows if they will be in the sequel with the information that they know.

@@QuoteBlink hmmm, I'll have to watch it again. The prize money only increased if someone died. Did the money increase by 14 deaths after he said said keep an eye on them?

Evan in the glass episode it was shown how dependent he is sort of like school bullies they're more scarier in packs. B ug t when he lost others we saw his true nature

Nah they didn't know what game was next so I wouldn't count it as a smart move, he was just lucky he took pity on Il-nam and he teamed up with him instead.

@@archipelagoose6137 I don't know, the math teacher seemed to love solving his problems by taking his odds into account. He probably realized at some point that each game was geared towards cutting the numbers in half and guessed that the next game was gonna have a similar objective. He has probably observed Gi-hun, who wasn't overly smart or educated but was lucky enough as well as a good team player, and thought that he was a weaker player as an individual who made it so far on luck and could use some of that luck if they had to work together but was also someone he had a definite advantage over if they had to play against each other. A deep-thinker like him would probably take a lot of things into account before singling out Gi-hun as his partner, he could both use his good luck and team play skills but prey on him if he needed to. Gi-hun was smart to reject someone he didn't know in favor of taking his chances with someone he knew had his back like IL Nam. He took pity on him but also knew the old man had his back and still had plenty to offer as long as it wasn't a strength/endurance-related game. "I'd rather deal with someone I know, rather than an unknown." Or something like that, but it's generally how the saying goes.

Or not playing the 'religious' guy he would of manipulated or guilt tripped his opponent while wasting time he certainly was in the glass episode

@@hadbetterdays8118 True.

The last game he won before midnight not only by believing in humanity but also because the individual had already helped him, or at least, was getting him help.

No wonder he's the last player

That's a good one! It was a very underrated move! When Gi-Hun told Deok-su that he should be vigiliant because he is the strongest one and others can easily unite against him at any time was a very smart saying. That forced the guy to never let his guard up and be in constant stress about the behaviour of the others.

"snake guy" 🤣

@@aleacaea better than calling him "toilet guy"

​@@aorikineiko7 no han mi nyeo is the toilet girl.

​@@aorikineiko7 he is the asshole ( in the series)

I don’t even think he could’ve survived the glass bridge not because he would’ve been pushed but I don’t think his body could handle all the jumping from tile to tile

But like he can choose a high number since he knows all the games.

Many risks, pushed off, forgot the order, ran out of time, slipped. That was the only game he couldn't relatively safely compete in

Nah. He was chosen by Gi Hun to play marble with. Or he would be the left one out and still have to play glass bridge

@@QuangBui-tx9on I think they had 2 rules for that game and the save the lonely child was for any player other than Oh Il-Nam to keep that pretend "fairness" and not eliminate a player who did'nt had the chance to play but if Oh Il-Nam would have been the unchoosen one the other players would'nt have seen him again and presumed he was dead. Oh Il-Nam was playing the sames games as the other 455...but not always with the same rules (as in game 1 when the doll motion scan did'nt scan him the same way than the others so I'm pretty sure he was allowed to move or would have been shot with blanks).

lol so true

And the dumb ones are the racist ones

@@lulusart4576 this is also true

"Awesome" only if you haven't watched any show of this genre. For those who watched Liar Game and Kaiji knows that SG is pretty meh.

@@kaidestinyz I fucking hate people who said "kAiJi iS bEttEr!!!" Or "kaIJi hAs BeTtEr GaMeS". These people clearly have not watched the show with their eyes wide-opened and only taken everything simply at face value. Just to get off my chest, yes, Kaiji is better when it comes to the types of games that the contestants play, but when it comes to the exploration of human nature when put in extreme duress, Squid Game prevails. Look at the protagonist of Kaiji, he is barely memorable other than the fact that he is observant and has critical thinking. The characters in Squid Game, on the other hand, act a lot more accordingly to real humans, and whenever someone is killed off, you can't help but feel for them. The games are so simplistic yet so intriguing. The best example is the marble game. IN this game alone, we know 3 things: Sacrifice, betrayal, and friendship. First of, sacrifice: When player 067 converses with her competitor, she explained the reason why she joined the game which was to get money to bring her mom from North Korea to South Korea so that her family could be reunited. Her competitor (I don't remember her name nor her number), on the other hand, had no primary goals when she finished the game since her family was all gone and thus when the two decided to compete, 067's contestant gave up her marbles willingly and sacrificed herself by claiming that she (067) still had purposes and reasons to move on. The scene was extremely impactful despite the fact that 067's competitor was introduced as a mild character who only got limited screen time. Does Kaiji have sacrifice? Kinda. For example, when the protagonist realized that the old man still had one last card but time had run out, he decided to go with him instead, which was noble to an extent but ultimately a stupid choice. If he actually cared about the old man, he should have taken full responsibility of the card instead of having the both of them be sent to labour camp so that at least one would be able to walk free and all the efforts wouldn't go to waste. Pretty imbecile for a guy who was supposed to be smart and observant. Second, betrayal: Ali and Sang Woo. Before we talk about them, let's talk about the events that lead up to them being pairing up since it is an important segue. When the contestants voted to leave the game, Sang Woo and Ali got thrown into a random location. Sang Woo, despite the fact that he was cash-strapped himself, decided to give some of his money to Ali for him to buy food and a bus ride home and lent him his phone. Yes, Sang Woo may do this not because he felt pity for Ali and more of "I'm a businessman and thus way much more superior than this working-class illegal immigrant so it is my best interest to help him", but at the end of the day, not everybody would be so willing to give up their money particularly when they are in a dire financial situation. Another important scene is when Sang Woo and Ali had major character development. Each of them talked about their personal lives and shared bitterness and sweetness with one another. So much so that a bond grew between them. You may not know but Ali called him "Hyung" which is roughly translated to "older brother". Because of this, when Ali called out for Sang Woo as "Hyung" when he couldn't locate him, the scene of him realizing that he had been betrayed by the same person that had helped him and whom he trusted was much more impactful and heartbreaking. Does Kaiji have this? No, it was just your typical "protagonist is smart" stereotype. Now, let's talk about the ending. When Gi Hun (the protagonist) won and went back to the world, he suffered from trauma, guilt and PTSD. He realized when he won, all the money that he won was ultimately all for nothing: His best friend, Sang Woo, was killed, his mother who had diabeetus died alone in her house no doubt waiting for her son to come home, and his daughter had gone to the US without him getting to say his final goodbye. This is extremely pivotal as it displayed a realistic broken man. Gi Hun may have won the money, but he lost everything and everyone that he loved and held dearly to. What about Kaiji? Well, there is none. The main protagonist, after winning the game, went out to party with the loan shark as if nothing traumatizing had ever happened. And when his loan shark stole all of his money and erased his debt, he simply went on with his life. I mean, what about the old man that made as a friend? Well, I doubt he even recollects him the moment he stepped foot back into the world. Hell, I doubt he felt any guilt for the old man. At least when Gi Hun reformed himself and put his life back together, his first priorities were to help his best friend's mother and help 067's brother and give them large amounts of money and bring the brother to Sang Woo's mother so that they could fill the gaps in one another: Sang Woo's mom now have a son-like figure whilst 067's brother has a mother or grandma figure. It is a bittersweet ending. Kaiji, despite having cool concepts and games and a smart protagonist, is still very much bland and uninspiring. The movie is just your typical and stereotypical movie of how the protagonists solve everything by themselves with barely any difficulties and barely any help from the other contestants. And whoever someone dies, I barely give a shit. Squid game, despite having simple children games, they're only served as a catalyst to delve deep into human nature and the capitalist society. And whever someone dies, it feels likfe a punch in the guts.

And she died for something so ridiculous.

@@joester4life had she not been injured by that glass shard she could've possible defended herself. Sang woo was intelligent and cunning but not brutal like Deok Su

@@dot3889 I think she also had a chance to make it to play in the final game had she not taken out the shard from her body. It was slowing the blood loss considerably, despite her obvious discomfort.

Let's not forget that the reason Gi-hun had to join the game was because Sae-byeok stole his money in episode 1.

@@natashavernon9828 True

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Yeah but if you heard I think it was the front boss. To Keep an eye on them .so who knows what happens to them I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️

And live a miserable life good luck

@@ImSwiftLy i am not making excuses kid in squid game they have a chance too win a price for playing games in real life they would never be able too financial recover not really hard too understand .

I think some of you need to watch episode 2 again. It shows how desperate how these players were and why they came back to play the game.

I agree!

I hated him tho

but of course, he graduated from snu, business-

that made me even more sad then i already am about his death 😭

I like how google translate says that 좃됫다 translates into "snack" I'm not saying you're wrong, I just find it funny

@@N3bulA_ Sorry it's actually written "좆됐다 (Joat Dwet Da)" (pronounced the same). Trust me it means "I'm fucked'. The character said that because he knew he wasn't gonna be able to get the umbrella...

Well if they jump over to fight you, you might be the one who gets pushed to fall too.

I was just like why didn’t they carry the shoes and then throw it at the glass, normal will obviously shatter, tempered it will bounce off

@@DrippleDragon They could have also sat on the edge of the glass and kicked the glass directly in front of them to see if it would shatter, if it shattered they would have known that it was the other one that was tempered. I mean it was pretty obvious why didn’t allow them to wear their shoes during that particular challenge, just for the simple reason so they wouldn’t be able to throw their shoes at the glass to see which one breaks. The thing about the sitting technique is that there was definitely enough room for them to try it and make it across safely, the rules only said that you had to jump to one of the tiles, not that you couldn’t test them out before hand. There’s also the walking along the glass’s metal frame technique too, but I don’t know if they would have allowed that to take place, mostly because of the rule about jumping to an individual tile. “Adapt and overcome”

An even dumber decision was deciding to blow up the glass bridge, eventually killing a finalist in the process.

@@mattmurphy5805 like they would care if one of them would die. As you can see, the final round plays out better on a 1v1.

mine was glass stepping stones. but im also giving credit to red light green light and the dalgona

And the ending…. 👍

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My favourite was the honeycomb game.

I agree. 218 should’ve won. The last 5 mins ruined it for me. Red hair and acting like a hero?! They consented to it!

yeah, I agree

@@oldmanjenkins771 the consent is worth little. Sure they consented but was there much choice anyway? Episode 2 show that clearly despite consenting to return, most people have no choice otherwise. Gi Hun play the game to pay for his mother medicine or something. Well she died early.

@@oldmanjenkins771 Get a grip, these people only consented because they had no other option. If rich people putting poor people through hell for money doesn't sound wrong to you, you're simply fucked in the head.

Soooo rich people subjecting people who r in debt to a game to the death isn’t considered being a monster? Regardless if these people gave consent

I still wanna know if junho is alive or not lol

Wtf are you talking about prison break never had a bad season maybe 5 was unnecessary but over all it never felt dragged on you're probably one of those people who only liked the prison scenes and didn't like anything outside of the prison i would even say season 4 was just as great as the 1st season in my opinion

Oh come on we all knew that getting yourself involved with a thug will give you mean results plus it's literally on his face what a snake he is. But I'll admit her revenge was satisfying

Explain please.

Mines the honeycomb one

Stick to the team episode

Marbles

The last one was my favourite. Gi-Hun's story becomes so tragic. His mum dies, his friend/s dies as well as finding out the person he trusted turned out to be a sicko. And ffs, he can even see his daughter because of the position he's in. It's almost like he was destined to never have a happy ending. Because in the end, even if he got out of The Squid Game, he'd always be looking over his shoulder knowing the mastermind behind the games will always be keeping tabs on him. Poor Gi-Hun.

Yea that episode was my favorite too. The fact that they could kill each other at night made it spice the show up a lot. Also love a good underdog story

Not really, they being watched

@Brianjoni Budiono Doesn’t matter. They’re not forced to play the game again and they don’t have to die in the game. Plus they get to see their families again at least.

@@Jon155mt idk if it was 100% confirmed, but people say that those people were killed off screen

@@Sir_Natt I would suspect we'll probably see them in Season 02...or they'll go after a family member, as the Front Man is now in charge, which means, he can change the rules.

@@Sir_Natt yes because how was their money put into the grand prize if they weren't killed?

Hello there

@@Reaperguy67 hi :)

Squid game*

for real

Amen

Or any dub

@Charles Anderson eww

@Charles Anderson You miss so much stuff with the English dub though. And the red light, green light song the doll sings is far more terrifying and unsettling in the original Korean version. Just watch that scene again without the dub and see the difference.

He’s character is actually better than Joker. More realistic and actually scary yet even likable and logical

@@inhim05 agreed

@@inhim05 His*

The third was stupid as he got caught pretty easily.

@@TheSupaman98 fair enough! But, was I wrong about player 17, I might’ve mistake the numbers?!

@@jasongriffiths3013 I think he was player 17

@@jasongriffiths3013 The glassmaker had 017 as his original number, during the final game, he picked number 13. I understand the confusion, but he was number 017.

@@brennathecatlover4360 He was.

No. Because it's been rumored they've been killed off screen.

Except they still suffering with large amounts of debt

@@Barrie96 At least they were alive.

@@Halcon_Sierreno but they might not be

A lot of the players didn’t have that much of a choice. Deuk-so (I know I’m butchering the names) was gonna b killed if he didn’t get the money he owed, same with with Gi-hun and Gi-hun’s mother was dying (unfortunately he was too late with that one), Sang-woo was gonna b facing jail time and probably a lot of it, and Ali I think was also about 2 face jail time and needed 2 get money 4 his family.

I honestly hoped sangwoo got eliminated after he betrayed ali lol

Oli

@@tommyhofer1176 Olly lol

Of course someone like USA would never betray Oil

@@thebilliejeansfandomvideos2004 ok i added her

@alex Dlt It's a survival game,u have to win by any means

I feel you brother i feel you… our reality is a squid game

So is the internet…

but that's what they're doing rn. Season 2 is not even out.

@@solomon1708 we don’t know if there will be but it’s most likely possible

@@brennathecatlover4360 it'll most likely be. Early 2023 is what experts predicted

Literally 😭

It wouldn't pierce. Pretty sure the Squid Game's organizer would be smart enough to choose a gun caliber that's just enough to kill a guy.

@@fakephan You have the exit wounds to worry about in this case. I mean that’s how the director of that recent Alec Baldwin movie got injured when the Cinematographer was killed, he was standing directly behind her when she was shot, and that was only with a .45 caliber gun too, not the higher powered rifles they were probably using in the show. (Edited for grammar)

@@MrWizeazz i dont think they use unnecessary high caliber, since the guns in squid game could be a 9mm turret.

@@fakephan In some shots of Red Light, Green Light, we saw that the bullets clearly penetrated the players' body

@@N3bulA_ im pretty sure that the shooters/turrets avoided shooting more than 1 player by aiming by the side/front/back

Some people say they were killed offscreen

@@Sir_Natt they weren’t

@@lochnessmonster2277 actually they were because how would the money add up?

@@Sir_Natt perhaps it was a continuity error?

@@lochnessmonster2277 maybe, but the front man did say, "Keep on eye on them". He prob meant kill them

Chances are they would've been shot for that

@@Theexavierross there is no rule saying you can't do it

I wanted them to punch it or walk in the thing that was holding the glasses

You hate people (you could have said "when" people, it doesn't sound as awful) who hate a character that did evil things in order to survive? You don't have to think you would act differently than 218 to hate him. I hated characters who were fake despite myself being a big liar for a few years. I didn't think I was better than them, I just disliked them because of their wrong doings and no one will force me to like a character just because the character is realistic.

@@ziemowitawaglik3279 about the mistype, it was my friend who typed it but I agree with him, his the only real character in the show

Making locks magically disappear? Can you elaborate the reference please? I don't remember anything with locks in the Tug of War game.

@@unprofessionalcritic3107 If you look at the locks that are supposed to keep everyone connected to the rope during the Tug of War, the old man's locks aren't there. It was a literal "Blink and you miss it," but we wouldn't have known that one first viewing because we were all too excited about them surviving to notice the old man laughing and his wrists are lock free. After all, if his side lost, he could have just... let go and let everyone fall while he gets "dragged away."

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Yep!! That's exactly why he was by himself during the partner selection of the marbles game (to make himself less likely to be picked appearing as weak and a liability) so that he could leave the game like you said without anyone noticing after everyone chose a partner as well as let Gi-Hun win and progress ("To lose" and be "eliminated") along with knowing the stepping stone game was after (Not having any safeguards with the path being randomized).

@@mas8705 Do you honestly think he would have still had enough reaction time to quickly undo the cuffs (yes, we know that his shackles weren’t individually locked like the others on the team, but he was still cuffed to to the rope) if his team went over the edge in tug of war? I mean, you’re talking only maybe 2-3 seconds from when the first player goes over the edge to when the last player goes over it. I don’t think the old man would have had the reaction time to quickly undo his cuffs while he’s simultaneously being pulled forward by the players already dangling over the edge in front of him and being pushed forward by the players behind him. I just don’t see him being able to move that fast when they are quickly going down.

Agreed. He had no chance in hell against the Math teacher, who we know went on to win his game since he's so good at figuring out probabilities. Plus the guy had no reason to spare Gi-Hun, unlike the old man.

His decision wasn’t smart it was lucky. He had no idea he would be competing against his “partner”.

@@650ic6 that's why I said unknowingly smart, cause he didn't know that his life was going to be saved

It falls so fast that you’d break your arm or cut yourself trying to do that.

The smart decision would be to take all of the players shoes, wrap all of the shoes in a jacket, and hit the glass really hard with the shoe ball.

@@CheckTheDriveTrigger The guards would shoot them.

I presume if they did that the Pink Soldiers would've just shot them. I say a smarter (If not riskier decision) would be for the players to quickly just rush across the bridge, if they stood on a regular glass panel I'd say they'd have a second before it breaks so they good quickly jump to the next panel, if they don't make it all the way, they could've at least showed the other players several of the regular glass panels so they could better understand where to go.

@@virgil6034 Didn’t someone do that?

I think it didn't matter how many people won. They would have split the money.

It would be a 2v2 then the last two players play.

No, there is only be one winner. If you recall when the police guy found all the records of the winners there was only one winner for every year. That is the point of things like the dinner they gave them and leaving just the knives, they encouraged them to kill each other so is less people in the final game. If 3 or 4 people get to the final game they would probably find a way to make them kill each other until only one is left.

@@almaryscambar3658 I don’t think so tho I think everyone just killed each other but there could have been more than 1 as they said in the first episode the guards said they will split the money

@@namiyc8412 doesnt make sense. If you are saying they say that in the series then why did you ask if 2 people can win in the first place?