Squid Game

by Hwang Dong-hyuk

Hundreds of cash-strapped contestants are lured into a deadly competition where they play children's games for a massive cash prize — but elimination means death. Squid Game became Netflix's most-watched series ever, blending survival horror with social commentary about economic inequality.

50 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Abdul Ali — Player 199 — a Pakistani migrant worker with the gentlest heart in the game, who called the man about to betray him 'hyung' right up until the end.
• Byeong-gi — Player 111 — a disgraced doctor who turned the game into a side hustle, harvesting organs from the dead in exchange for intel on upcoming games.
• Cho Hyun-ju — Player 120 — a transgender former special forces soldier who entered the games to afford the surgery that would let her live as herself, and became th
• Cho Sang-woo — Player 218 — the pride of Ssangmun-dong, SNU's golden boy, who embezzled a fortune and then cut his own throat rather than let his childhood friend sa
• Han Mi-nyeo — Player 212 — a loudmouthed wildcard nobody took seriously, who proved that the most dangerous person in the game is someone with nothing left to lose
• Hwang In-ho — The Front Man — a former detective who won the games, lost his wife, and became the masked god of a death arena, then walked back in as Player 001 to
• Hwang Jun-ho — The detective who infiltrated the games looking for his missing brother — and found him behind the Front Man's mask, pointing a gun at his head.
• Jang Deok-su — Player 101 — a gangster who ran the dormitory through brute force and fear, until the woman he discarded pulled him off a glass bridge to his death.
• Jang Geum-ja — Player 149 — a retired nurse who entered a death game to pay off her son's debts, only to discover her son had entered the same game for the same reas
• Ji-yeong — Player 240 — a young woman who killed her abusive father, had nothing left to live for, and gave her life to a stranger in a fake sunset because she b
• Jung-bae — Player 390 — Gi-hun's loudmouthed, loyal gambling buddy who followed him into the games and paid for Gi-hun's idealism with a bullet.
• Kang Dae-ho — Player 388 — a former marine who became Gi-hun's quiet, dependable right hand in the rebellion.
• Kang No-eul — Guard 011 — a North Korean defector working as a sniper for the games because the pay is the only path back to the baby she was forced to leave behind
• Kang Sae-byeok — Player 067 — a North Korean defector and pickpocket fighting to reunite her family, whose quiet ferocity made her the most dangerous player no one saw
• Kim Jun-hee — Player 222 — a pregnant woman in a death game because her ex-boyfriend stole her future, now carrying new life through a place designed to end it.
• Lee Myung-gi — Player 333 — a crypto scammer trapped in the same game as the people he ruined, discovering that the universe has a sense of poetic justice after all.
• Nam-gyu — Player 124 — a former club promoter who lost everything to a crypto scam and copes by bullying anyone weaker than himself.
• Oh Il-nam — Player 001 — a frail old man with a brain tumor who turned out to be the billionaire who created the Squid Games, playing alongside his victims becaus
• Park Yong-sik — Player 007 — a gambling addict who entered the games to save his mother from his debts, not knowing she'd entered the same game to save him from his.
• Seong Gi-hun — Player 456 — a gambling addict and deadbeat father who won 45.6 billion won by being the last person alive, then walked back into the games to burn th
• Thanos — Player 230 — a rapper who lost his fortune to crypto and brought his stage persona into a death game, because performing is the only thing he knows ho
• The Recruiter — The man in the sharp suit who plays ddakji with desperate people in subway stations — charming, well-dressed, and the first face of the machine that w
• The VIPs — The golden-masked billionaires who fund the games for sport — men so bored by their limitless wealth that they need to watch desperate people die to f

Locations

• Red Light, Green Light Arena — A massive killing field disguised as a rural Korean landscape, where a giant doll turns her head and anyone still moving dies.
• The Crematorium — Where eliminated players end up — black coffins with pink ribbons, fed into furnaces, reduced to ash.
• The Dormitory — A massive warehouse where hundreds of players sleep under the watching eye of a giant piggy bank that fills with cash every time one of them dies.
• The Escher Staircase — A labyrinth of impossible pastel stairways that players walk through between dormitory and death — the threshold between the mundane and the surreal.
• The Front Man's Chamber — An Art Deco command center disguised as a luxury study — where the man behind the mask watches everything and decides who plays fair.
• The Glass Bridge Arena — An infinite black void with a glass bridge suspended over nothing — jump right and live, jump wrong and fall forever.
• The Island — A remote island off the Korean coast that houses the entire Squid Game operation — a self-contained death factory disguised as a playground.
• The Marble Game Village — A lovingly recreated Korean village bathed in a fake golden sunset — the most beautiful place in the facility, where the worst betrayals happen.
• The Squid Game Court — A squid-shaped court drawn in dirt under stadium lights — where children's games end and two men decide who deserves to live.
• The VIP Lounge — A jungle-themed den of garish excess where billionaires in golden animal masks drink champagne and bet on which desperate person will die next.

Items

• Dalgona / Sugar Honeycombs — Carve a shape from honeycomb candy without breaking it — a street food snack turned into a death sentence for clumsy hands.
• Ddakji — A folded paper tile game played in subway stations — the Recruiter's audition to find out how much dignity you'll sell for cash.
• Glass Bridge — Jump across 18 pairs of glass panels — tempered glass holds your weight, regular glass shatters and you fall into the void.
• Guard Masks — Circle, triangle, square — three shapes on a black mask that erase identity and enforce hierarchy among the people who run the killing machine.
• Hide and Seek — Hiders run, seekers hunt — but if a seeker can't find anyone to kill, the seeker dies instead.
• Marbles — Ten marbles each, play any game you choose, take your partner's marbles or die — the game that forces friends to destroy each other.
• Mingle — A spinning merry-go-round, a number called out, and seconds to form a group of exactly that size — everyone left over dies.
• Red Light, Green Light — A children's game of freeze-and-move scaled to lethal dimensions — if the doll catches you moving, snipers open fire.
• Six-Legged Pentathlon — Five people tied together at the legs, racing through five Korean children's games in five minutes — teamwork or death.
• Sky Squid Game — Squid Game, but with a twist—it's high up in the sky.
• Squid Game — The titular final game — a schoolyard game played on a squid-shaped dirt court, where the last two survivors fight for everything.
• The Business Card — A small card with a circle, a triangle, a square, and a phone number — the invitation to trade your life for a chance at money.
• The Green Tracksuit — The player uniform — teal-green and numbered, erasing every marker of class, wealth, and identity until all you have left is a three-digit number.
• The Piggy Bank — A giant transparent piggy bank that hangs from the dormitory ceiling, filling with gold cash every time someone dies — impossible to ignore, impossibl
• The Voting Machine — The mechanism that lets players vote to end the games at any time — the illusion of choice that makes everything that follows their fault.
• Tug of War — Ten people pull a rope on a platform in the sky — the losing team falls to their death when the rope is cut.
• Young-hee — The giant doll with motion-sensor eyes who sings a children's song and kills everyone who moves — the most iconic image of the show.

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