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This recap covers episode ten, “One Lucky Day.”
My my, how far we’ve come.
A great deal of Squid Game: The Challenge’s hook is baked into the spectacle of its scale. We started out with a whopping 456 participants, who were whittled down through a progression of challenges that largely capitalized on the chaos of a large group. Red Light, Green Light was the clearest expression of how expansive that chaos could be. Last episode’s Circle of Trust, while featuring a much smaller cluster, still relied on the confusion of myriad possibilities and interlocking relationships to force players into a tense bind. Now that we’re down to three players, Squid Game: The Challenge has…
