Attention
The fourth game is about to begin
Please follow the staff’s instructions
and swiftly make your way towards the game hall
Let me repeat the instructions
The fourth game is about to begin
Squid Game
#4 Friends
Players, welcome to the fourth game
For this game, you will be playing in teams of two
Again!?
I'm not making the same mistake again
Please look around and find someone you wish to play with
When two people agree to play together
shake hands to show you have become partners
There can only be two players per team
You will have ten minutes to find your partner
Hey, let's...
Hey, kiddo
Let's join forces
Most of these games here, you need to be either fast or smart to win
I’ve been watching you, and I think if we’re a team
We’ll beat a lot of others out there
I’m neither fast nor smart
I was lucky in the first game because Python is the only programming language I know of
True, I did invert a binary tree
but my typing speed is just about average at around 90 words per minute
Besides...
Uh, no, no, no, no
It’s okay, really...
You two will make a great team together
I’ll find someone to play with
There’s no one left better than me
I was a math teacher outside
Double majored in computer science
Super fast at typing from birth
I turned down a bunch of offers to do it with you
‘Cause I feel like we’ll make a great team
The thing is...
we don’t know what we’re going to play…
Hey, stop shopping around and just team up with me
At this rate, you’ll fail to team up with anyone and get left behind
You know, the number’s uneven
Once everyone teams up in pairs, one will be left behind
Then what will happen?
What do you think?
They’ll be eliminated, obviously
I’m guessing it’ll be that guy
who looks like a hentai protagonist
Stop dragging this out
Let's play together
Hey man
Wanna do this together?
The time for finding a partner is now over
All players, please follow the staff to your designated positions for the game
Hey man, look at me
No one can stop us if we work together
I think you and I could really win
All right, let’s do this and get out
Forget about the last round
I believe in your coding skills
I think you’re an awesome engineer
We’ll beat everyone with your skills in Python!
In this game, you will play a video game of your choice with your partner
Gaming is a popular hobby among programmers as it bolsters relaxation and competitiveness
It is only natural that we expect the same from the top software engineers
In this game, the player who defeats their partner wins
What...?
You will have 30 minutes for this game
Let the game begin
Let's start
That means one of us will die
So both of us should do nothing then?
So we should just die?
Or you’ll die on my behalf?
Or one of us dies so the other can go on
Have you played Mario Kart before?
This is the biggest tragedy since Covid-19
What should we play?
I know...
So cold, right?
As cold as ice
Let’s end the game with a single round
It's a PvP
We race each other in the track of our choice
The player who reaches the finish line first wins
We play a set of five games
The first to win three tracks wins
Got it?
All or nothing
Just...
One round
Okay...
What are we playing?
I don't know either
Hey
While we think about it
Wanna just...
Talk?
You know
Thing we couldn't tell other people
We got time
And one of us is going to die here anyways
Start Race?
1st Race
Next race
This time
I choose the track
I don’t want to do this with you
Sir, I want to play someone else
Shut the crap and play
I’m pretty sure you know by now
I work for Microsoft
Microsoft’s alright
But ever since Covid-19
things haven’t been the same
Riots, hate crimes against Asians
soaring house prices
pay raises that doesn’t keep pace with inflation
To make matters worse
My wife lost her job
I had to do something to protect my family
You're cheating, aren't ya?
What're you talking about?
How can you be ahead of me every single second?
No, I didn’t do anything
You jerk. You played innocent all this time, tricking me!
What did you do? Tell me!
I did this to get a house where I could be with my wife first
Then we'll have kids
You know...
Become parents
I promised her I’d take her to Hawaii too
It’s her dream to go there
Hawaii?
There was a thing about it on TV
I honestly thought it was a heaven on earth
You know...
Seattle’s too rainy for that
I’m so sorry, man
I know you won’t cheat
But I can’t die this way
I beg you
They’ll kill my family if I don’t get out of here
Sorry...
But I have a family too
Hey, hey, come on
if you help me, there’s a way that both of us could live
Just before the game
we promised to leave here together, didn’t we?
So please, trust me this once and help me
I’ll make sure we get out of here together
H.. how?
What about you?
What's your story?
Don't wanna tell me?
That's unfair
I told you about me
It's okay
You don't have to tell me if you don't want to
I'm alone
I don't have any friends
I was bullied ever since I was young
School was very difficult
No one would ever hang around with an ugly Asian like me
They would pull pranks on me
Sometimes even spit at my face
What's worse
No one cared
Not even the teachers
the faculty
I'm so sorry to hear that
I honestly do feel you
I've been to those situations too
They would make that slanted-eye gesture every time they see me
So I started covering my face with my hair
To hide myself
To protect myself
But then...
people started calling me a hentai protagonist
Just hear me out first and then turn me down if you like. I mean it
What is your plan?
There are other players playing Mario Kart right now
We’ll join their balloon game
Use weapons to attack them
When they are hit, they’ll lose their balloons
And remember what happens when they lose all their balloons?
Game over
Exactly
It was then I met Python
It was the first programming language I learned
I loved it so much that I could code all day with it
It was my only friend
But how did you end up here?
I hacked some of the bullies’ computers
Sold their data to the black market
The cops eventually closed up on me
so I ran away
Then I met a strange guy
He pulled out a card
That weird card
I had nowhere else to go so...
We’ll disrupt their games until time runs out
And when it does
I’m sure they’ll make us compete in teams
Our team will go play other teams
We’ll get to play as a team as we’d originally planned
We’ll get out of this place
together
What are you gonna do if you get out?
I have nowhere else to go, so...
I never thought about it
Hey
We should go to Hawaii together
You should join me in my family trip
Wait
We can't both get out of here
You have three minutes until the game is over
Three minutes remaining
Alright, the opponents are on the other side
Let's go and get their balloons
Cool, I'll let you know when I've found them
What!?
Hey, hey!
Let's do this
What are we playing?
F
FB
Facebook?
Flappy Bird
Microsoft doesn't make any smartphones
The bird falls down and only flies up when the player taps the screen
The bird must fly through the pipes without colliding
The person to navigate the bird furthest wins
Is my understanding of the rule correct?
Who should go first then?
Your number's lower
You should go first
Hey, hey
No, no!
No!!
Hey
What are you doing?
I lost
You won
Stop
Why the hell would you do that?
Butterfingers
You think I’ll be thankful that you did this?
Do it again
Even if I do it again
I won't beat you
Stop acting cool and do it again!
I have nothing
What?
You have a reason to leave this place
But I don't
I thought hard about what I’d do
If I were the one who got out since you asked me earlier
But no matter how hard I thought
I got nothing
Someone with a good reason should be the one to leave
That's the right thing
right?
You can do it
Don't die in here
And go
Go meet your wife
Have kids too
Become a father
And go to Hawaii
He’s out of balloons
It’s game over
Per the game’s rule, he can no longer play
That means I win
Player 199 eliminated
Hey
Thanks
for playing with me
Player 220 eliminated