Warning: This article contains spoilers forSquid Game: The Challengeepisodes 1-9.
STEPHEN LAMBERT:We left out all the best bits.
I don’t think there were any great ones that we left out.
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I loved watching the one pair who couldn’t agree on the game to play and who eventually won.
LAMBERT:I know, wasn’t that wonderful?
HAY:Marbles is brilliant.
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Were there any other pairs who disagreed and were eliminated as a result?
LAMBERT:That was the only one who felt it hard.
It made for great television.
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LAMBERT:He had some more food.
He stayed in the dorm.
Sounds like he had the best deal out of anyone.
HAY:Except he then worried about there being a target on his back.
If more players had been eliminated during the Glass Bridge, would the dice rolling game still have happened?
Or was that just a backup plan?
LAMBERT:We had done a lot of testing.
With Glass Bridge, we knew how many people were going to start playing the game: 20.
We thought that if you’re tossing a coin, we’ll probably lose half of them.
HAY:But we wanted to play the dice game anyway.
We thought it would be intriguing.
It wasn’t as if we weren’t bearing in mind how many people came through.
HAY:We were forever between games reacting and adjusting.
But it’s a really interesting game, the dice game, psychologically.
It had a simplicity to it.
LAMBERT:But the most exciting game for me of that batch is the Circle of Trust.
That was just amazing.
Phil figured it out twice!
HAY:That was extraordinary.
LAMBERT:He really deserved his place in the final for doing that.
It’s such a pure test as well.
It’s the test of reading people.
It’s an intangible thing, but it’s really amazing to watch it play out.
You’ve just got to have a starting point where everyone’s odds are even.
What was it like watching that happen in real time?
That’s a classic human dynamic.
And there’s no right way to play it.
HAY:Not much, I’m sorry.
LAMBERT:[Laughs] They all decide to share [the money].
HAY:We have to keep an air of mystery around that, but it’s a fitting ending.
The season finale ofSquid Game: The Challengepremieres Wednesday, Dec. 6 on Netflix.
