Squid Game Trivia
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90 free Squid Game trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
15 free Squid Game trivia questions with answers. How well do you know Squid Game? These questions cover how the Netflix series was written, cast, designed and awarded, with a source behind every answer. Play, then share your score.
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Q 01In Squid Game's season-one finale, what is elderly Player 001 revealed to be?
A founder of the games
A founder of the games: on his deathbed, Oh Il-nam tells Gi-hun that he and his rich friends started them out of boredom, and that he joined as a player for one last taste of childhood fun.
Q 02Hwang Dong-hyuk first wrote Squid Game in 2009 as what?
Feature film
Feature film was the plan, but Korean studios turned the script down; about a decade passed before Netflix picked it up and it became a series instead.
Q 03What did South Korean producers keep telling Hwang his story was, when he spent years trying to sell it?
Too grotesque and unrealistic
Too grotesque and unrealistic was the verdict of the studios and actors he pitched, so Hwang shelved the script and made three other films before Netflix picked it up.
Q 04Under what title did Netflix originally plan to release Squid Game?
Round 6
Netflix worried the Korean children's game would mean nothing to international viewers and preferred Round 6, which described the format. Hwang pushed for his own title, and its strangeness turned out to be part of the draw.
Q 05In Squid Game's dalgona game, which shape does Gi-hun pick?
Umbrella
The umbrella: a teammate had worked out what the game would be and quietly chose an easy shape for himself, letting Gi-hun walk into the hardest one.
Q 06The endless pastel staircases in the players' quarters were modelled on the drawings of which artist?
M. C. Escher
Production designer Chae Kyoung-sun drew on Escher's four-dimensional stair drawings, Relativity among them, and described the resulting stairways as "a form of bondage for the contestants".
Q 07The warren of tunnels linking the arena, dormitory and offices was designed to imitate what?
An ant colony
An ant colony gave the hint for the layout, Hwang said: the dormitory is buried deep inside, and maze-like stairways lead from it up to the rooms and game arenas.
Q 08What do the circle, triangle and square on the guards' masks in Squid Game indicate?
Their rank among the staff
Their rank among the staff: circles are workers, triangles are armed soldiers and squares are managers, and a guard who lets a player see his face is executed.
Q 09Why did Squid Game's designers make the players' tracksuits green?
Korean school gym kit was green
Korean school gym kit was green in the 1970s and 80s, art director Chae Kyoung-sun said, so the look was copied to stir memories; one flat colour also strips each player of individuality.
Q 10How far off the ground was Squid Game's Glass Stepping Stones set actually built?
About 1.5 metres
About 1.5 metres: the dizzying drop was added afterwards with chroma key screens, yet even that small height made the cast nervous enough to help the scene.
Q 11The three characters Seong Gi-hun, Cho Sang-woo and Oh Il-nam take their names from what?
Hwang's own childhood friends
Hwang's own childhood friends lent the names, one of them a boy he used to play with in the alleyways; he says the two leads carry the two sides of his own life.
Q 12Gi-hun's past as a laid-off car worker in Squid Game was drawn from which real South Korean event?
The SsangYong Motor strike
The SsangYong Motor strike against mass layoffs in 2009 was Hwang's stated reference: he wanted to show how an ordinary worker like Gi-hun could fall all the way to the bottom.
Q 13Lee Jung-jae's 2022 Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series was the category's first win for what?
Q 21In season two, which North Korean defector is recruited to guard the players?
Kang No-eul
Kang No-eul, played by Park Gyu-young, is a North Korean defector and former soldier who takes a guard's uniform while searching for the daughter she left behind.
Q 22Which pregnant player does Gi-hun ally with in season two?
Kim Jun-hee
Kim Jun-hee, Player 222, enters the games pregnant and in debt after trusting the wrong person with her money; she gives birth during season three, and her baby is ultimately declared the winner.
Q 23Squid Game's second season drew 68 million views in four days, breaking a Netflix premiere record held by which series?
Wednesday
A role not in English
A role not in English had never won the category; Lee had been acting in South Korea for nearly three decades when Squid Game made him a global star almost overnight.
Q 14What is the grand prize on offer to the winner of the games in Squid Game?
₩45.6 billion
₩45.6 billion: the pot grows by ₩100 million each time one of the 456 players is eliminated, and it hangs over the dormitory as a giant piggy bank filling with cash.
Q 15In the Korean children's game of squid, how does an attacker win?
Tap the squid's head with a foot
Tap the squid's head with a foot and the attackers win; until they cross its narrow waist they must hop on one leg, and anyone pushed over the lines is out.
Q 16Within a month of its September 2021 release, Squid Game overtook which series as Netflix's biggest launch?
Bridgerton
Bridgerton had held the record with 82 million households in four weeks; Squid Game was helped past it by subtitles and dubs in more than 30 languages, more than rival streamers offered.
Q 17What colour jumpsuits do Squid Game's masked guards wear?
Pink
Pink, a deliberately cute colour: art director Chae Kyoung-sun thought soldiers running a death game would look all the more grotesque dressed in it.
Q 18What is the relationship between detective Hwang Jun-ho and the Front Man?
They are brothers
They are brothers: Jun-ho sneaks onto the island disguised as a guard to look for his missing sibling, and the Front Man finally unmasks before shooting him off a cliff.
Q 19In Squid Game's second season, Gi-hun rejoins the games to do what?
End them
End them for good: three years after winning, he has spent his prize money hunting the Recruiter who signed him up, and goes back in as a player to bring the games down from inside.
Q 20In Squid Game season one, Gi-hun allies with which player, his childhood friend from the old neighbourhood?
Cho Sang-woo
Cho Sang-woo is the neighbourhood's pride, a Seoul National University graduate who is on the run for fraud when he joins the games.
Wednesday had held the premiere-week record with 50.1 million views; Netflix primed the return with months of fan events around the world, drawing 52,000 people in person and six million online.
Q 24In Squid Game's second season, what was Player 120, Cho Hyun-ju, before she entered the games?
A special forces soldier
A special forces soldier, and it shows: when the players rise up in the season finale, Hyun-ju is the one who teaches them to handle the guns taken from the guards.
Q 25Before the games begin in Squid Game, what does Gi-hun habitually gamble on?
Horse racing
Horse racing takes what money he has, and the comparison comes back at him: the Front Man later tells him the games are entertainment for the rich, with the players as the horses.
Q 26What is the name of the giant robot doll Young-hee's 'boyfriend', introduced in season two's post-credits scene?
Cheol-su
Cheol-su is the boy doll paired with Young-hee; he turns up in season three's jump-rope game, where the two dolls swing the rope over the players.
Q 27Which Hollywood star cameos in Squid Game's finale as a recruiter for an American version of the games?
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett appears in the last scene, playing ddakji with a desperate man in an alley; Hwang said he wanted a recruiter who could own the screen with barely a line.
Q 28In Hwang's original plan for Squid Game's ending, what happened to Gi-hun?
He left to see his daughter
He left to see his daughter, alive: Hwang says he never meant to kill Gi-hun, then rewrote the ending so that he gives his life for a newborn who stands for the next generation.
Q 29After Squid Game's very first game, what do the survivors do?
Vote to leave
Vote to leave is what they do, narrowly, and everyone goes home with nothing; but life outside is so bleak that most of them choose to come back.
Q 30Which Squid Game episode won Hwang Dong-hyuk the 2022 Emmy for drama directing, the first for a South Korean in that category?
"Red Light, Green Light"
"Red Light, Green Light" won it for a story Hwang had spent about a decade failing to sell: Korean studios turned his first script down long before Netflix said yes.