Squid Game Season 2 Ending And More…

That SQUID GAME season 2 ending was one crazy cliffhanger. If you have questions about the ending or want to read up on other details of season 2 of the Netflix megahit, keep reading. Also, get ready for Squid Game Season 3 coming in 2025!

The Squid Game Season 2 ending on Netflix was a cliffhanger ending! On a personal note, we wouldn’t call it a very satisfying ending. So many questions are left unanswered, and yet, we can expect that the answers will be coming.

After all, we know that Season 3 of the Netflix hit series from South Korea is coming. We also know that it will be the final season of the series. But we’ll get back to Squid Game Season 3 later.

First, let’s get to the ending of Squid Game Season 2 with our FAQ.

Please note: Everything in the Q&A below is full of spoilers for the Squid Game season 2 ending. If you’re looking for a review, then click here to read our spoiler-free season 2 review of Squid Game >

For the record, we recognize that some of the questions may feel repetitive. We’re just trying to include every question we’ve been asked, so every one of them has been included below.

Netflix series Squid Game Season 2 ending explained

The season 2 ending of Squid Game left us with many questions and not too many answers.

Still, we’ve already received messages about a Squid Game Season 2 ending explained, so we’re looking into that here.

Does Squid Game season 2 really end on a cliffhanger?

Oh yeah, there are only seven (7) episodes in season 2, so that crazy cliffhanger at the end of episode 7 is the ending. It’s not that Netflix is broken and forgot to upload episode 8, but rather that we must wait until season 3 for answers.

Questions about the plot and characters in Squid Game season 2

Why does No-eul take the job as a guard and sniper?

No-eul (Park Gyu-young) is a North Korean woman who has escaped to South Korea leaving her infant daughter behind. She will do anything to get her back – and that costs money.

So, when presented with a card and an opportunity to make money, she accepts and becomes guard 011.

As we all know, there is lots of money in Squid Game (obscene amounts really), so everyone is surely paid well.

Why does Guard 011 execute those wounded?

When a player is eliminated, they are killed. Guard 011 tries her very best to make clean kills, which lands her in trouble. Just like in season 1, some of the guards have a little human organ side hustle.

They shoot to maim but without killing, so they can harvest organs from living hosts. Guard 011, No-eul, kills these people before they’re able to harvest organs.

Well, until it becomes too dangerous for her, anyway. After all, she still needs to be alive to save her daughter.

Is Player 388 a Marine?

Player 388 Dae-ho (Kang Ha-neul) is an ex-marine – or so he says. But when the players decide to fight back against the guards, and the shooting starts, he freezes!

In fact, he also seems very confused when first presented with a weapon, which seems odd.

Whether this is PTSD actually induced by having been a Marine or revealing that he never was a Marine is still unknown. Most points to the latter, which means he has the Marine tattoo and knows about being a Marine, but has never been one himself.

What are the new rules?

The players can vote after each game whether they want to continue or stop the game. The money earned will be split between all players if the majority vote says stop.

In season 1, the players could also vote to leave, which they did use to leave. However, most also returned when presented with the option for a second chance.

Also, in season 1, they wouldn’t get any money if they voted to leave. Instead, the money put in the piggy bank for each dead player would go to the family of each dead player.

Those who voted to leave in Season 1 would do so empty-handed but still alive.

Are the same games played in season 2 of Squid Game?

After the first game of Squid Game is once again “Red Light, Green Light”, Player 456 believes he knows that the next game will also be the same as last time. In Season 1, the second game was Dalgona, where sugar disks have images that must become separate. Often by licking the disk.

In Season 2, new games are introduced instead, and Gi-hun (Player 456) is as lost as everyone else in the game.

Which new games are introduced in season 2?

We’re introduced to two new games during season 2 of Squid Game. The season 2 ending comes before the games are even over. Instead, the episode 7 ending comes after the third round when a rebellion (led by Player 456 and others who have voted to leave) breaks out.

Before that, the two new games we’re introduced to are:

Round 2 is “Pentathlon”

The Penthalon game is a sort of Olympic-style event. A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events, which is what happens in Squid Game as well – just with a classic Squid Game twist.

Teams of five players with their legs tied to one of the other players will have to compete. It essentially becomes a six-legged race which they must complete within five minutes. During the race, each player must play and win a classic children’s game to move forward.

Before the race begins, they are told which five games will be played, so the teams can dedicate a player to each game.

If the team doesn’t succeed and make it past the finish line, they are executed where they stand. In front of all the players waiting for their turn.

Round 3 is “Mingle”

The Mingle game consists of every remaining player stepping up on a platform that turns while a tune is playing. Sort of like a huge carousel. All around this platform are doors to tiny rooms. When the music stops, the carousel stops and a number will be called out.

The number refers to how many people must be in each room within 30 seconds.

If you don’t make it inside a room with the number of people called out, you’re eliminated and shot and killed where you stand. There’s even a window in the door to each room, so those who win the round can see fellow contestants being killed.

Also, if you’re in a room with too many or too few players, you will all be eliminated.

At this point in the Squid Game, the contestants have already started sacrificing each other when a situation calls for it. That means people are dragged out of rooms or shoved into rooms against their will.

It’s absolutely heartbreaking what happens during the Mingle game in round 3 of Season 2.

What are the new games used by The Recruiter?

Before we even get to the Squid Game compound, The Recruiter is also doing his thing to find contestants. To actually recruit people for Squid Game, he is still using Ddakji. This is also the first game of the round 2 Pentathlon game.

Anyway, The Recruiter also has a few other games he likes to play. Again, two new games are introduced.

First up is “Bread versus Lottery Tickets”

The Recruiter goes into a convenience store where he buys 100 pieces of bread (a little bun or roll, if you will) and 100 Lottery tickets.

He then goes to a nearby park, where homeless and desperate people decide. He walks up to each one and gives them a choice. Holding the bread in one hand and the lottery ticket in the other, he asks “Bread or Lottery Ticket”.

As he expects, almost every single one of them reaches for the lottery ticket. It’s the Scratch-Off kind of lottery ticket, so he then gives them a coin to scratch it and see if they’ve won. They never really do.

Once they see that they didn’t win, The Recruiter calmly reaches out his hand for the coin, which they return to him. Almost without fault, the person then eyes the bread which he puts back in the bag and moves on to the next person.

We only see one person choose the bread instead.

After he runs out of Scratch-Off lottery tickets, he stands in the middle of the square in the park, pours out all the remaining food on the ground, and starts stomping on it. Making it inedible – or at the very least unappetizing.

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Minus One…

The second game of The Recruiter is something forced on the people helping Gi-hun find The Recruiter. Instead of leading Gi-hun (Player 456 who won in season 1) to the Recruiter, he manages to outsmart the two loansharks.

He ties them up and places them across from each other. Now he asks them to play “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Minus One”.

In this game, you play the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors with both hands. The “Minus One”-part comes from them removing one of your hands. It adds an extra element of strategy and trying to outsmart your opponent.

Then the recruiter adds another element in the form of Russian Roulette.

…paired with Russian Roulette

The Recruiter places one bullet in a revolver and spins the cylinder. The player who loses the round will have the gun fired at their head. Quickly, this tires The Recruiter, as no one dies from the Russian Roulette, so he puts in five bullets instead.

Before, the chance of survival was five out of six. Now, it’s only one in six.

After this happens, one of the players makes a mistake, which enables the other player to be able to decide which one of them should gamble on the Russian Roulette.

The obvious winner isn’t able to decide between his own life or that of his friend, so he does nothing. This results in him being disqualified and the Russian Roulette gun is fired towards his head.

The bullet was (of course) in the chamber and he dies instantly, while the surviving “winner” ends up co-operating. But only for a little while and later devotes his life to helping Gi-hun.

Is there a Squid Game season 2 episode 8?

No, Squid Game season 2 only has 7 episodes! But episode 7 does end with a cliffhanger, so it feels like there should be an episode 8. You just have to wait for Squid Game season 3 to get the last answers.

Squid Game Season 2 Post-Credits Scene – A New Twist on Red Light, Green Light

Don’t turn it off before you watch the post-credits scene of Squid Game season 2!

The post-credits scene opens with three players—Player 096, Player 100, and Player 353—stepping into a new game room. The atmosphere is eerily familiar yet unsettling. Standing before them is the menacing doll from the iconic Red Light, Green Light game that first terrorized players in Season 1.

But the doll is no longer alone. This time, she’s joined by another robot, a male counterpart, standing ominously beside her. As the tension builds, the lights in the room suddenly switch from red to green, signaling a twist on the classic Red Light, Green Light game. The scene cuts to black, leaving viewers speculating about what horrors might await in this reimagined challenge.

We’ll see when Season 3 arrives in 2025!

What we know about Squid Game Season 3

We don’t really know anything at the moment. Not for sure, anyway. However, we expect that season 3 will continue right after that Season 2 cliffhanger ending.

When will Squid Game Season 3 come out?

We don’t know the exact premiere date of Squid Game Season 3 yet, but when we do, this will be updated to reflect it.

However, we do know that Squid Game Season 3 will premiere on Netflix in 2025.

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