What just happened? Ever wondered how somebody would fare in a real-life version of Squid Game, only without the abiding deaths? YouTube star MrBeast spent $3.5 million recreating the hit Korean evidence, which includes nigh of the games, 456 contenders, and a $456,000 prize.

MrBeast's 76.6 million subscribers make his channel i of the most pop on YouTube. He's known for creating competitions in which people tin can win huge sums of coin, including half a million dollars for Concluding to leave the circle and Extreme tag, as well every bit Last To Leave $800,000 Island Keeps It. Every bit such, Squid Game is the perfect recreation opportunity, simply without anyone getting murdered.

The famous Blood-red Light, Green Lite beginning game sees players fitted with devices that pop whenever they move, a non-lethal simulation of being taken out past snipers.

There were no suspiciously kindly old men in MrBeast's recreation

It's entertaining to see the honeycomb game and how the licking technique that protagonist Seong Gi-hun used in the testify really works. Tug-of-state of war, meanwhile, involves teams falling into foam rather than to their death, and the marbles game sees best friends competing confronting other, many choosing to play the 'odd or even' game.

While the uniforms, drinking glass ball total of money, and so many other elements are perfectly recreated, the final titular Squid Game has been replaced with Musical Chairs, only because about people withal don't know exactly how to play the former, and it would likely end up being a pretty violent affair.

Some accept noted the slight irony of $3.5 million being spent on a YouTube video recreating a TV show that'southward a scathing commentary on the nature of capitalism, but that's a debate for another time.