Fighting will break out. We gave you less food on purpose to make you all fight each other. Weeding out the weaklings before the next game begins.
A soldier informing Byeong-gi about the Special Game in "Stick to the Team"
The Special Game (Korean: 스페셜 게임) is the official name for the mass rioting that takes place between players in the dormitory between rounds. Though not part of the six game line-up, these are deliberately planned by the staff to "weed out the weakest".
Special Games occurred in the games in 2020 and 2024.
Player techniques[]
Since this game was a free-for-all and there were no rules, players had many ways to survive or eliminate each other.
- Kang Sae-byeok used a pocket knife she smuggled in.
- Jang Deok-su stabbed players with his broken bottle, and several other players used them as weapons as well.
- Numerous players used metal bars taken from the bunk bed frames as weapons and toppled beds over in order to kill or injure players on or near them.
- Naked hands can also be used, as player 224 snapped player 328's neck and killed her.
- Players used jackets, bedsheets, and pillows to strangle or smother one another to death.
- Some participants such as Oh Il-nam either climbed to higher bunks or hid underneath beds and other structures in order to avoid being killed.
- Some Team O members used forks to stab Team X members to death, such as Nam-gyu and Kim Gi-min.
History[]
2020[]
See Special Game (33rd Squid Game)