The Internet's Ideas For An Aussie "Squid Game" Are Equal Parts Nostalgic And Cooked

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Squid Game Season 2 .

There was truly a Squid Game frenzy around the world as fans anticipated the drop of the second season. Australia especially, saw plenty of Pink Guards marching through public transport stations, standing unemotional on floating vessels in Sydney's harbour and taking over Luna Park.

You could say that their presence made everything feel slightly...dystopian. After all, in the show these guards are responsible for the demise of hopeful contestants just looking to make a buck.

If you aren't on the bandwagon yet, Squid Game is a dystopian thriller that brings together unlikely (and unlucky) citizens to play childhood games for a teeny, tiny chance at 45.6 billion South Korean won (₩). Spoiler alert, losing a game means instant death for its participants, but let's (try to) forget about that unsettling detail. We want to talk about the ✨nostalgia✨ of it all!

The release of the second season sparked new discussions online about how local editions of Squid Game would go down in each country. Across the internet, Aussies had plenty of suggestions. Here are a handful, from cooked to classic:

1. According to Kurt Sterling, instead of the choice between a lottery ticket and a baked good from the well-dressed recruiter in Season 2's first episode, unsuspecting Aussies will need to make the hardest choice of all...

...Deciding between eating "nutritious food" or sculling "the devil's juice" (AKA a bottled iced coffee). That's a well balanced meal right?

3. As for the Aussie mini games, one Redditor proposed an unheard of challenge named: "Guess the Spider". The premise of the game involves sticking your hand into one of two spider filled boxes. Seems simple enough yes? Oh, I forgot to mention...there's a 50% chance of getting bit by a venomous species.

Lucky, it's a hypothetical! 

4. "Bloodsport" or "Bloodknuckles" is another (concerning) option.

"You'd sit in a circle around a table, and one player would spin a coin in the middle. One by one, everyone had to lightly tap on the spinning coin. The person who stops it spinning, they lose.

The loser would then press their fist into the table, presenting their knuckles forward. The person opposite would launch the coin in a slide across the table to make it strike their knuckles.

Enough losses in and everyone's knuckles are bleeding." 

— u/__Pendulum__

5. How could you look past "the beep test" — a common P.E. exam that sees students continuously running between two points, timed to pre-recorded BEEPs that progressively get faster — for punishment?

— u/outsidecarmel

7. Obvious suggestions included childhood favourites like "Duck, Duck, Goose", "Heads Down, Thumbs Up", "44 Home", "Egg And Spoon Race" and "Murder In The Dark" with the grand finale of "What's The Time Mr. Wolf" (AKA Australia's "Red Light, Green Light").

8. Another Redditor didn't have many thoughts about which games would be included but they knew for certain that they would "be played in 40-degree heat".

10. Aussie Squid Game catering options include: "Meat pie or sausage roll", said u/Ok_Monitor5712 (with the high likelihood of the food being served in children's party portions).

What would you want to see in your local Squid Game challenge (not including, its lethal qualities)?

Share your thoughts in the comments below.