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Credible Threat
The designers of Squid Game have promised the players that the winning contestant will win a lot of money, but they find out that some...
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First Mover Advantage
Sang-Woo is worried about another fight breaking out between groups at night. Player #196 says "We've got 3 girls and old man and us. Our...
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Inside Knowledge
Sae-byeok explores an air vent and witnesses workers melting pots of sugar. Sang-woo learns of her discovery and guesses that the next...
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Crossing the Bridge in the "Glass Stepping Stone Bridge" Game
Only 3 players of the 16 original players survive the game because they don't work as a team. Some players have more information than...
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Risk Aversion When Starting the "Glass Stepping Stone Bridge" Game
Players must make decisions with uncertainty since the distribution of the glass tiles is 50/50. The players are essentially making...
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Risk Profile in the "Glass Stepping Stone Bridge" Game
The players are asked to choose a vest numbered from 1 to 16 before they know the rules of the game. The players don’t know the...
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Zero-sum Game in the "Marbles Game"
Several groups play odds and evens (holjjang) with their marbles. Both players grab a random number of marbles – holding it hidden in...
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Partner Selection in the "Marbles Game"
Players are told to pair up, but given their prior game experiences, they try to choose a partner strategically. The players soon...
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Strategic Behavior in the "Red Light Green Light" Game
We see a few instances towards the end of the game where players begin to act strategically by signaling, hiding behind, and even...
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The Importance of Remaining Rational in the "Red Light Green Light" Game
Some players don’t fully understand the rules and payoffs of the game. In the traditional form of the game, elimination means being sent...
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Learning the Rules of the "Red Light, Green Light" Game
In a typical game, we know the number of players, their strategies, and their payoffs. Each player wants to win by crossing the field...
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Should You Go First or Last?
Players in the upcoming game must select a numbered vest that will determine their playing order. Initially, players pick numbers in the...
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Pick Your Game of Marbles
For the fourth game in the series, players must select a partner and then play a game against each other using marbles. Each pair must...
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The Perks of Working Together
The players have been deliberately underfed in an effort by the organizer to turn them against each other. The players recognize what is...
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Sharing Secrets
It turns out that one of the players (#111) is working outside of the official games to help some of the masked workers sell body parts....
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Attack or Sleep?
The players have not been given very much food in an effort to motivate them to attack each other. One guard explains that “we gave [the...
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Learning the Rules of the Game
One of the rules that the players agreed to follow was that if the majority of remaining players voted to end the games, then they could...
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Everyone's Desperate to Play
Nearly everyone playing in these games have been selected because of enormous debts. After the first game, the players call a vote on...
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