a portion of this video is sponsored by trubill in a game where death is on the line you have to win at any cost and the contestants in squid game are no strangers to this idea throughout the show they use some pretty creative strategies to win but with these crafty tricks actually work in real life we've got a lot to get through today so let's jump right into it so we're here to test the first game of squid game and this one's pretty straightforward it's just red light green light now it seems like there's not a lot to this game in the show but the reality is if you don't get past this one you don't get to play any of the rest so is there a way to optimize our strategy or should we do what the players in the show do obviously illnom takes the approach of just walking the whole course but all the other players are sprinting by the end of this thing is that really necessary did they just waste too much time at the beginning so taking into account the average height of a korean adult man i approximated the distance between the back wall and the pink enzo line based on the length of the average dead guy then using that distance as a guide i was able to use this overhead shot to extrapolate the length of the entire field and since it's obviously harder with extra length for good measure i round it up to NUMBER_TOKEN feet considering all the time wasted i'd assume at least one to two minutes are spent with us frozen leaving us with just over three to cross the field and judging by how close gyoon comes to failing that's got to be a pretty tight run right i started with a control test walking the field at a leisurely pace with no stops i walked the course in just about NUMBER_TOKEN seconds now this doesn't have to be super accurate but the point is that even if you have the time and you took half of it and you're either like yep people were either frozen or people were getting shot you still have two and a half minutes and that was such a slow speed that i mean like walking like this i can pretty much stop anywhere on a dime and it's not even gonna be challenging so next i tried the old man strategy and predictably that worked like a charm he doesn't just walk he sort of walks like this the whole time right and then he goes but can we do even better because you get an extra full second while the robot's head turns around you have enough time to take a knee so i decided to incorporate that into a new strategy of my own see a lot of people die because they do stuff like ah cause they're in an awkward part of their step i psyched myself out i think that was better it is a little bit more tiring i mean it's it's pretty much like squatting for the entire run but what about seongwoo's strategy of using other players as a meat shield can a trick this simple really fool the detection algorithm and even if it works is it fast and easy enough to do consistently this is interesting this is actually a little bit harder because i sort of have to maintain the perfect distance i just took a huge step after running the tests i gave the chris NUMBER_TOKENk footage to the wise task force where members brian
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