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Did You Know the ‘Squid Game’ Players Could’ve Found Out About the Games in Advance By Looking at the Walls?

Did You Know the ‘Squid Game’ Players Could’ve Found Out About the Games in Advance By Looking at the Walls?

Sep 25, 2021   •   Meryl Medel

Netflix’s original Korean series Squid Game might only have 9 episodes, but boy, are they absolutely nerve-wracking. Sometimes, you might even find yourself hiding behind your hands because of how suspenseful and bloody things could get. So it’s definitely worth a rewatch (or two! Or even three or more, right?) to reallyyy appreciate this masterpiece. There are a lot of minute details you could miss on your first watch, so here are some fun Squid Game trivia that could spark your memory:

Warning: A few spoilers ahead!

 

The clues on the walls

In the beginning of the series, the large room where all the participants stay in between games is full of beds arranged in a stair-like fashion to accommodate all 456 players. The beds covered the length of the walls and went up nearly as high as the ceiling. Eventually, as the number of players dwindled down, the beds and other structures were removed, revealing the walls — and the drawings they featured. Apparently, if the players just looked behind the walls for a bit, they would find clues on all the six games they need to play to survive.

 

Their tracksuits have a deeper meaning

Aren’t those tracksuits so eye-catching? Most especially when they’re all clumped together. Like the clues on the walls, there’s also a symbolism behind what the players and game staff are wearing. The players wear plain green tracksuits, while the game staff wear bright red tracksuits with hoods and masks painted with different shapes. According to director Hwang Dong-hyuk, the same colors “was meant to symbolize the erasing of individuality and personality.”


Fun fact: These tracksuits are so iconic that fans have edited their own idols into these scenes. Cases in point: global superstar BTS, chart-dominating soloist IU, and Han Seo-jun of True Beauty fame.

 

They created an actual set


The director wanted to use as little CGI as possible to make the series more real. Actor Park Hae-soo is very much in awe of what the team has created: “The set and the giant doll are exactly what we see on screen. Everything amazes me.”

 

456 players? You got it

 

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The show actually cast 456 people to play the role of game participants in the game. That’s not counting the game managers, who are also quite numerous, despite hiding behind masks painted with shapes.

The number quickly decreased after the first game, and actor Park Hae-soo shared that the place felt so “empty” afterward. “I see them going home after the elimination, and I can feel the room is emptier. It also makes me feel emptier.”

 

There’s a Filipino actor in the cast

 

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Christian Lagahit, also known as Chris Chan, is a Filipino instructor teaching English in South Korea. He is also a part-time actor. In Squid Game, he is Player #276, who joined the Gi-hoon’s team for the tug of war game. Pinoy represent!

 

The show was 13 years in the making

Director Hwang Dong-hyuk shared that he started the draft of the show’s screenplay as far back as 2008. “When I wrote it, I thought I could play it because I was in debt at the time. I thought to myself that I wish there were a chance like this,” he said.


But he had to shelve the screenplay back then, as there wasn’t a lot of audience for it then compared to now. “I finished the script in 2009. At that time, people felt that the script was too unfamiliar, brutal, and the plot would be too complex,” the director added.

 

The title was originally ‘Round Six’


When Netflix first announced this series in 2019, they dubbed it ‘Round Six.’ It refers to the number of rounds the players have to survive through in order to win the game and take home the 44 billion won prize.

 

The shapes aren’t referencing the Playstation

Don’t deny it — you’ve thought it was about the keys on a Playstation controller, right? But those shapes are actually drawn from the initials of the Hangul characters used of Squid Game written in Korean: Ojingeo Geim (오징어게임). The circle comes from ‘o’ in ‘오”, the triangle from the ‘j’ sound in 징, and the square from the ‘m’ sound in ‘임’. You will also notice these shapes highlighted in the show’s title card.

 

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