Why wasn't tug of war included in Squid Game: The Challenge? The executive producers explain their reason for introducing Warships instead.

Why wasn't tug of war included in Squid Game: The Challenge? The executive producers explain their reason for introducing Warships instead.

Each of the games is an incredibly tense version of children’s playground games such as marbles and tug of war and usually result in a large portion of the contestants being killed off for losing.

Squid Game knock-offs are taking over the gaming platform, Roblox. The game genres range from battle royale, to simple minigames, to takes on the popular prison break games.

In 'Squid Game,' Il-nam comes up with a strategy for tug-of-war and Sang-woo thinks of a trick to lead his team to victory. These strategies and tricks might actually work in real life.

In ancient Korea, Tug-of-War serves as a popular festival game, especially during the lunar festival. Today, Tug-of-War is still played during Korean festivals using ropes as large as tree trunks.