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Jan 31, 2024 · Season 1 winner of Netflix's 'Squid Game: The Challenge' Mai Whelan has finally received her historic $4.56 million prize, PEOPLE can confirm.
- Esther Kang
Dec 8, 2023 · Mai Whelan became the first-ever winner of Squid Game: The Challenge on Wednesday, beating out two other finalists. She'll go home with $4.56 million US, the biggest cash prize in reality TV...
- The Truth Behind The Survival Games
- What's Happened to Player No. 456?
- Other Mysteries Remain
Traumatized by the deaths (including that of his childhood friend Sang-woo, player no. 218) that led to his victory, Gi-hun doesn't touch his prize money. He returns to his destitute life and becomes a disheveled recluse after finding his mother dead at home. One snowy evening, Gi-hun receives a business card from the survival competition with a my...
Fast-forward to a year later, Gi-hun is clean-shaven, with his hair trimmed and dyed in an arresting, blood red hue. Later, while en route to board a plane to visit his daughter in the U.S., he spots a haunting familiar face on a train platform—the salesman (played by Gong Yoo, fromTrain to Busanand several other Korean filmsand dramas) who first r...
Gi-hun may also unravel other mysteries in a potential forthcoming season, such as the unknown backstory of the "Front Man" (whose name is In-ho, played by Korean actor Lee Byung-hun), who's been managing the game on behalf of the old man. Why did he stay on the island after winning the game years ago? And what does he ultimately want? The Front Ma...
Oct 14, 2024 · Who wins Squid Game in Season 1? And what happens to the 45.6 billion won? Sae-byeok’s death leaves the childhood friends to face off in the eponymous final game: Squid Game — a game of chicken in which players try to hop over into the opponent’s home base within a squid-like diagram.
- Haein Jung
Nov 5, 2021 · Here's who won squid game, how much money he took home, and what the Squid Game ending means for us all.
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Here’s What the Squid Game: The Challenge Winner Did After the Show. In this exclusive interview at home, Mai (Player 287) shares what life looks like now after beating out Sam (Player 016) and Phill (Player 451) and winning $4.56 million in the season finale.
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Dec 7, 2023 · The winner of Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge has been revealed after the reality show saw 456 people compete for a huge cash prize.
