Item from Squid Game by Hwang Dong-hyuk
Five people tied together at the legs, racing through five Korean children's games in five minutes — teamwork or death.
The Six-Legged Pentathlon is Season 2's answer to Tug of War — a team game that tests cooperation under lethal time pressure. Five players, bound together, must navigate a track and complete five traditional Korean children's mini-games: ddakji (tile flipping), biseokchigi (stone throwing), gonggi (jacks), paengi (spinning top), and jegi (hacky sack). Each mini-game requires a different skill — dexterity, aim, hand-eye coordination, rhythm — and one team member is designated for each. The team succeeds or fails together. Five minutes for everything. Failure means the entire team is executed. The game is chaos: five adults trying to move in coordination while one of them throws stones, another flips tiles, another kicks a jegi. The physical comedy masks the horror — 110 of 365 players were eliminated. Twenty-two complete teams executed. The game rewards childhood familiarity with these specific Korean games, which means your survival depends on how much of your childhood you remember.
Teams of five players stand side by side with their legs tied together at the ankles (six legs total). A circular track with five stations, each featuring a different traditional Korean game. Each station is colorfully decorated in the show's characteristic childhood aesthetic.
Also known as: Pentathlon, Five-Game Relay