Huge Squid Game 2 mistake proves the Front Man secretly cheated in the Mingle game

While being the most successful show to ever come out of Netflix, Squid Game is filled with plot holes, editing errors and all sorts of chaos. The English dub has been meme’d to death, K-pop rapper T.O.P has gone from cancelled to fan favourite, and people are even shipping Gi-hun and the Front Man (me included). As if we needed any more theatricals in this crazy universe, people have found a huge mistake in Squid Game 2 involving the Front Man that the producers overlooked. If you sit down and do the maths, it actually doesn’t make sense.

In Squid Game 2 episode six, O X, the players are forced to participate in a deadly game of Mingle. It’s by far one of the most brutal games of the season that ends in sad deaths and a terrifying race against time. However, there was a moment in the game where the maths didn’t quite add up.

In the game, the players have to run inside one of the 50 rooms with the right number of people inside before the clock runs out. If you start doing the maths, you can work out how many people should be alive after each round. At the end of the game, there are just 100 of the 456 players still remaining.

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At a particularly tense part of the game, Player 001 (who we know is the Front Man) tells the main gang he will go and look for another group of people as there is one too many of them to fill up a room of four. While the group panics that he won’t make it, he emerges alive.

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One fan theory suggests that he might have ducked out of the game. This is backed up by the fact that 169 players remained at the end – a number NOT divisible by four. Either somebody at Netflix got the maths wrong, or the Front Man hid somewhere away from the players’ sight and waited out the round. His own guards aren’t going to shoot him, are they?!

This isn’t the only time the maths has looked dodgy in Squid Game 2. In the six-legged race, there was an odd number of teams of five, yet the final round which included Gi-hun’s team had two players going at once. By the maths, there would have had to be one team going on their own, which we didn’t see over the entire montage of races. Or maybe us Squid Game viewers just have way too much time on our hands.

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