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The way to end the fifth game without any casualties (spoiler)

posted 3 years ago by Boromir (9712)
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I talk about the Glass stepping stones game.

As you know you must take of your shoes before go up to the glass tiles but there is no rule you can't take the shoes with you.

So the way to win the game is use the shoe to break the glass, if the glass don't break or cracks, it is clear and you can jump. The first step is the most easy, you lying down on the floor and hit the glass with your shoe. Then it's more scary but still possible, you do the same from each tile, you lying down on the safe tile and hit other glass with your shoe.

Two players can be in the same tile, so one of them can keep the other player from felling.

[–] LetoAtreides (474) 3 years ago

Or just running on the edges which looked at least 3-4 inches wide. They should have showed at least one character attempting it and falling or getting shot to make it clear it's not possible to the rest of the players.

[–] asom (6511) 3 years ago

to me it looked like maybe 2 inches or less. I doubt it would have worked.

My problem was: why all of them were jumping on the middle of the glass? I would have jumped in a way that if the glass would break I could try to grab the edge and lift up ...

or just walk on both ledges ...

[–] LetoAtreides (474) 3 years ago

The edges are as wide as the character's feet. So at least 3 inches. Or not. Looks like 2 now. Anyway, I think it's possible to keep a balance on that.

https://media.distractify.com/brand-img/PL2Wd63tB/1024x536/squid-game-glass-bridge-1633371125023.jpg

https://youtu.be/KC7QVR4spds&t=40s

[–] asom (6511) 3 years ago

I wouldn't try that. But I would try on the 2 edges in the middle. Better balance with spread feet :D

[–] Boromir (9712) 3 years ago

We need carefully follow the instructions, watch the scene again, they said you must step only on them (the unbreakable glass), so your idea will end with shot to the head.

[–] asom (6511) 3 years ago

Yeah, that’s a real risk ..

[–] eisbock (39) 2 years ago

It doesn't take a mathematician to see that the odds of survival are astronomically low if you're next in line to jump.

I probably would have risked the edges since playing the game normally almost certainly guarantees your death.

For funsies, the odds of survival for the first guy is a whopping .0004% or 1 in 250,000. Since the guards didn't kill anybody, you don't know if they're actually going to kill you if you find a loophole, so I would imagine the odds of cheating and surviving are at least better than 1 in a quarter million. After all, players in previous games have cheated and survived, sometimes ignored!

There's only 16 total players. Once you get to player 10, your odds of survival finally surpass 50%. So basically anybody before that is probably not going to make it, especially the first 4 which all have less than a 1% chance.

I wasn't a fan of this game because of how rigged it was against the earlier players. Bummer that we didn't see people try to be more clever.

[–] Clouseau2 (152) 3 years ago

Remember they are up REALLY high and glass is very slippery. So trying to do complex moves like balancing on the edge or jumping on the edge is most likely going to result in you flying off to your death.

[–] Boromir (9712) 3 years ago

We need to ask ourselves two questions here:

1. It' legal move?
2. Is your chances of crossing the route higher than the "normal" way?

Both ways are dangerous but I think the answer to Q2 is yes. However I am not sure it's legal.

[–] Clouseau2 (152) 3 years ago

The guards don't seem to always mind that much when you find a loophole or a trick as long as it's relatively fair ... Witness in the honeycomb game when it was pretty obvious the two lovers were using a smuggled lighter to heat up the sugar to win. The guards were watching closely and I doubt they would have missed that.

What they really hate is when the game doesn't end with the expected result ... Like when the glass expert was able to discern the glass by the refractive properties so they turned off the lights.

[–] prolelol (1421) 3 years ago

I was thinking the same thing. I was pissed off that they weren't thinking about that.

[–] Boromir (9712) 3 years ago

I think about this also.

More chance that my idea is more legal because you don't skip the glasses.
Don't forget you can ask the guard before you start if this move allowed.
Watching the series shows that they are decent enough (funny to said that) to allowed such moves if you found a loophole. As long as it is not explicitly stated that it is illegal then it is definitely possible.

[–] atomicx (234) 3 years ago

Well it seemed perfectly within the rules when the one guy was able to examine the glass and could tell visually which one was tempered and which one wasn't. That is until the lights were turned off.

[–] Boromir (9712) 3 years ago

If they try to turned off the lights it's doesn't help them. I am not talking about reflection but an attempt to break or crack the glass.

Currently, I do not see how they can ruin my idea unless they themselves broke their own rules.

[–] Nate Adams SA23 (896) 3 years ago

Too me the fall and the rope fall looks like it's possible to survive the fall. Unless the guards shoot you dead down there too.

[–] Boromir (9712) 3 years ago

I agree it is possible but if I remember correctly they burn some of them alive.

[–] Clouseau2 (152) 2 years ago

The show covered players surviving, but being severely injured many times. You can drop a great distance or be shot and survive. If you lose the game you die. Either by being burned up alive or by being put out of your misery with a bullet.

[–] Jb (21) 3 years ago

I thought the key to that game was going to be the fact that two people can stand on the tempered glass. I thought perhaps it was possible to do something where two people stand on the tempered tile and face each other. A lighter/smaller person and a bigger/stronger one. The strong one holds the smaller one's hands, and the lighter one jumps to the next tile and back. It seemed like the glass often took a second to break. If done right, I think the lighter person could propel themselves back to the tempered tile with the help of the stronger person. The two people supported on one tempered tile thing really wasn't much of a thing at all except for the loud woman taking out the thug.

[–] Boromir (9712) 3 years ago

Interesting idea.
I try to look again at the distance between each tile at close sight looks far from each other. It's Very scary, I don't think it can work, they both will die.

And again, I am not sure it's allowed to jump from tile to tile, read the instruction in English (Hopefully they are translating the instructions correctly): "For this game, you will guess which one of next two tiles is the tile made of the stronger tempered glass, and only those across the 18 pairs of tile."

[–] eisbock (39) 2 years ago

I agree. I thought the players were going to find some clever ways to play this game, sometimes getting killed by the guards in the process.

I was a little let down that a bunch of people desperately fighting for their lives would follow the rules in a game of chance severely stacked against them.

[–] TearofLys (2398) 3 years ago

A shoe wouldn't break the glass. I think an option would have been tying themselves together, so if the one testing the glass fell through, he(she) would be caught and pulled back up.

[–] Clouseau2 (152) 2 years ago

That's a good idea but would probably not be accepted by the guards. They could have tied all their jackets together and formed a long rope. The first player steps on the glass, if (s)he falls through they pull him back up and proceed to the next panel.

[–] BillySlater (4108) 2 years ago

The problem was the rules were not clear cut nor consistent throughout the games. For instance, they said the players must go in order. They stipulated games were to be played fairly, when the unfair advantage thing happened with the Doctor. But then in this game, the gangster guy forced players to go ahead of him. Then blankly refused to continue the game.