Netflix’s Squid Game may be coming to a city near you—here's how to find out where to play:
has racked up over 16 million views to date. The clip shows him and his friends receiving invitation cards bearing geometric shapes and being led from one game to another by an attendant donning a magenta jumpsuit and black face mask featuring emblazoned with a white square., one player shrieks, “I broke it!” and another pretends to buckle under pressure, shouting “I’m going to choke!” while revealing her cracked candy and then dramatically slumping over.
Meanwhile, unofficial Squid Game knock-off events are cropping up around the world, as an array of ventures jump on the bandwagon to capitalize on the series’ enormous popularity. In Indonesia, where K-drama has a huge following, hundreds of customers per day come to Jakarta’s Cafe Strawberry for a Squid Game experience that has quickly tripled the eatery’s earnings. Waiters serve the honeycomb sugar candy from thegame and “patrons are greeted by staff dressed as the ominous hooded and masked guards in the nine-part thriller, holding toy guns and ushering them toward the end of the room where the ‘Red Light, Green Light’ playground game starts,”In South Korea, St.
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