Going in there's no clue as to what clues would help you until you start the game. The last two rooms were crazy to work out too, given they got it from a video of the room that was entered by the girl who died
shareyeah they're lucky they had Arisu with them to otherwise they'd never have figured it out lol. at least the other games had rules that indicated how to succeed at the game, the first game was just guesswork, like you said it really was brutal
shareI didn't like this as it was just too random whether they'd make it out. In fact not even random. The odds are incredibly low.
Sure I get that it's really just to show us that his mates believe in him being the clever guy who'd work it out but in reality would they even have time think there was some pattern or a way of working it out? Not sure. Something less random would have been better.
I guess it wasn't much worse than squid game's glass bridge challenge (basically a 50-50 shot each time)
shareGood point, maybe - I can't remember how many of them got through that though? I think it was still quite a lot.
Like you said, also 50/50 really on each jump but with a lot of people coming through from behind a sizeable percent survive.
I think they could possibly all have died in the game here though.
As it turns out, not many. Squid game one was actually worse because you couldn't really take it in turns as such. And there was more glass panels than there were doors. Alice in borderland one would just need ten people to ensure someone survived
shareIt's also unlikely that nine people would bite the dust, since a 50/50 shot is better odds than any game in a casino; even roulette is 48% at best. Of course, a bad streak of luck and almost everybody dies...
The Squid Game glass floor one, I thought, was plagued by poor thinking skills from the players. They should have taken off their shoes and hurled them at the panels. The glass would crack or break. The reinforced glass wouldn't. Passing shoes to the guy in front could have gotten them across.
Although, there's a moment between the thug and his girlfriend (I'm avoiding spoilers for Squid Game) that I thought was extremely satisfying and an excellent payoff to previous episodes.
But, yeah. I thought the Squid Game players weren't using their heads on that one.
I'll also give Alice in Borderland props for the "Game Master". Whoever is running the game (I'm only on episode three; avoid spoilers, please) doesn't seem to mind outside-the-box thinking. In Squid Game, it seemed like the guys running the show would off players for trying to outsmart the game itself.
Yes I guess since each choice Is independent you'd expect on average half of them to survive. It's not great odds though for a 3 level game.
Re squid game, it looks like they had shoes initially but when they came to jump on the panels they were all barefooted (were their shoes maybe taken off them?)
Yes, it was too much for a level three, especially given the REALLY complex solution that relied on understanding the geometry of the car parked outside (what?), which felt like one of those old Adam West Batman solutions where they exchange logical deduction for free association games and somehow solve puzzles and crimes.
On that point, they made a point of showing us Arisu's geometry books and his interest in geometric puzzles (the game on his phone) but then only used this once in that first game. I'd have thought it would come up more.
They took off the shoes. I think they were told to. Maybe it was to prevent that. It's been a while since I watched that episode, and if there's a reason they couldn't do that, I stand corrected.