Netflix's trailer for the IRL 'Squid Game' teases nightmarish games from the show

We spy "Hopscotch" and "Red Light, Green Light" 🫣
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A real-life version of the game 'Red Light Green Light', in which hundreds of participants in green jumpsuits run and freeze at intervals.
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In case you'd forgotten, a real-life Squid Game is coming to Netflix.

The death game from the wildly popular and truly nightmarish Korean drama series will be adapted for a competition show, Squid Game: The Challenge. The series will see 456 real players vying for a prize of $4.56 million by completing games inspired by the one's you've seen in Squid Game — albeit without the actual death. But that hasn't stopped reports of the filming of the show being extremely tough for contestants.

After a first look in June, Netflix has released a teaser for the series, which shows some of what the contestants are up for: from the show we spy Red Light, Green Light, Hopscotch, and the overt reference to Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party. But we also see life-size Battleships.

In the meantime, you can always watch MrBeast's version.

How to watch: Squid Game: The Challenge is streaming on Netflix from Nov. 22.

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Shannon Connellan
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Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.


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