Squid Game Reality Series Sets Release Date — New Trailer Teases Games Involved (Hopscotch! Battleship?!)

To have any chance of claiming the biggest prize in game show history — $4.56 million — Squid Game: The Challenge players will have to avoid being sunk during a round of "human Battleship."

Battleship, as well as Red Light, Green Light and Hopscotch, are among the all-grown-up children's games teased in a new trailer for Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge, which now has a pre-Thanksgiving Weekend release date of Wednesday, Nov. 22 (for all 10 episodes).

Based on the hit Korean drama that set Netflix viewership records with its September 2021 release, and then went on to earn 14 Emmy nominations, Squid Game: The Challenge recruits 456 players to compete for $4.56 million by playing games inspired by the original series as well as some new ones (such as Battleship).

Thankfully, though, the losing players won't be targeted by snipers and such, as they were in the original Squid Game. "The stakes are high, but in this game, the worst fate is going home empty-handed," the official press release has assured us.

When the reality spinoff was first announced, some criticized the concept for trivializing a deadly serious and violent drama that exposed the ugly underbelly of capitalism. But Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk defended the competition series to reporters in last year's Emmys press room, saying, "Even though our show does carry quite a heavy message... when you take things too seriously, that's really not the best way to go for the entertainment industry... I hope that this is going to be a great new direction for the industry overall."

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