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, also known as the Special Round and Lights Out, was a bonus game that happened between Games 2 and 3, taking place in the lobby. Though not part of the six game line-up, this was a planned event of the staff to "weed out the weakest".
The Special Game occurred again in the Squid Game in 2024.
Game information[]
The game started during the lights out by Player 101 by stabbing Player 198, because she snitched on 101 and his gang for cutting the line for seconds. Soon, a fight begins to break out. As the fight continued, the lights started to flicker.
The game ended when Oh Il-nam couldn't take it anymore and climbed on top of one of the highest beds and demanded things to stop. The lights then turned back to normal and soldiers started shooting on the ceiling to stop the brawling.
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 him.
- 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.
Players eliminated[]
33rd Squid Game[]
- Player 003 - Killed by Player 131
- Choi Woo-seong - Killed in the fight
- Player 007 - Killed in the fight
- Player 011 - Killed in the fight
- Player 012 - Killed in the fight
- Player 014 - Killed in the fight
- Player 015 - Killed in the fight
- Player 018 - Killed in the fight
- Player 025 - Killed in the fight
- Player 036 - Killed in the fight
- Player 048 - Killed in the fight
- Player 049 - Killed in the fight
- Player 051 - Killed in the fight
- Player 072 - Killed in the fight
- Player 073 - Possibly killed by Han mi-nyeo/Player 212
- Player 074 - Beaten by Player 211 with a metal bar
- Player 075 - Killed in the fight
- Player 080 - Killed in the fight
- Player 087 - Killed by Player 320
- Player 103 - Stabbed to death by Player 111 and one more unknown player
- Player 113 - Thown down some stairs by Cho Sang-woo and Ali Abdul
- Player 129 - Killed by Player 158
- Player 131 - Killed in the fight
- Player 198 - Stabbed with a broken bottle by Jang Deok-su
- Player 203 - Killed in the fight
- Player 206 - Killed in the fight
- Player 211 - Possibly killed by Player 194
- Player 214 - Killed in the fight
- Player 221 - Killed in the fight
- Player 222 - Killed in the fight
- Player 224 - Killed in the fight
- Player 232 - Suffocated to death by Player 019
- Player 233 - Killed in the fight
- Player 239 - Killed in the fight
- Player 249 - Killed in the fight
- Player 252 - Killed by Player 211
- Player 277 - Stabbed repeatedly by Player 303 (likely)
- Player 301 - Killed in the fight
- Player 321 - Killed in the fight
- Player 328 - Neck snapped by Player 224
- Player 329 - Hit with a bottle and stomped to death by Player 131
- Player 331 - Stabbed to death by Jang Deok-su
- Player 349 - Killed in the fight
- Player 361 - Killed in the fight
- Player 398 - Killed by Player 329
- Player 411 - Beaten up by Player 398
- Player 416 - Stabbed with a broken bottle by Player 303
- Player 438 - Kicked and killed by Player 236
- Player 444 - Stabbed in the throat with a broken bottle by Player 131
- Player 451 - Killed in the fight
Mistakes[]
- In the Korean version, Player 198 was announced to be eliminated twice.
- Although Player 277 was killed in the special game, he was seen surviving Special Game.
- Player 097's icon reappears and then disappears after the Special Game, But he died in the initial chaos in Red Light, Green Light.
- The icons of Players 012, 025, 036, 048, 049, 051, 073, 075, 080, 097, 205, 207, 211, 349 and 372 also blacked out, most likely indicating their death; although it is unconfirmed as their eliminations weren't announced and it exceeds the death count of killed players. But their dead body isn't seen.
- Although the death count for the brawl is 27, over 27 players seem to have been eliminated. However, 27 participants must have been eliminated because there were already participants who had been eliminated before but reappeared and were eliminated.