This is the first game played by the 456 players in Squid Game. In a behind-the-scenes featurette, the show's art director, Chae Kyung-sun, said Red Light, Green Light was popularized during the '70s and '80s in Korea, and was mostly played in alleyways. In Korea, instead of saying Red Light, Green Light, the players sing: "The red rose of the sharon (hibiscus) flower has bloomed." Normally, the losers have to hold the hand of the person who is "it" for the rest of the game, but in Squid Game, a 10-foot, pig-tailed doll — eerily modeled after a popular character from Korean children's textbooks — shoots them instead.
How to Win: Stay low and balanced. It's not about how fast you can run across the field, but how firmly you can stop.
