«Squid Game: The Challenge» finally selected a winner in its 10th episode, cutting down a field of 456 competitors to just one.
«Squid Game: The Challenge» has finally whittled its way down from 456 contestants to one — and now, that winner is taking home $4.56 million.
The series, which is based off of Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Korean-language Netflix drama «Squid Game,» premiered on Netflix in November. Like the original show, it features contestants fighting their way through a variety of physical and mental challenges for a chance at the prize money, with some added gimmicks hand-made for reality television. Unlike «Squid Game,» obviously, players aren’t killed when they get eliminated — they just lose out on their chance to take home millions.
The second batch of pre-finale episodes, which hit Netflix on November 29, left us with three finalists: Sam Lantz (016), Mai Whelan (287), and Phill Cain (451). They’re the last three people standing after a gamut of challenges.
Here’s a recap of how all three got to Wednesday’s finale — and who ultimately came out on top.
Warning: Major spoilers for the season one finale of «Squid Game: The Challenge» below.Mai, Sam, and Phill all had their ups and downs on ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’
Mai, Sam and Phill weren’t camera favorites in the early episodes of the season, but all three emerged as some of the game’s best players down the line.
For one, they were all assigned the second most-difficult shape — the star — during the dalgona challenge and managed to survive.
