
Who died in Squid Game season 3? All the players and their brutal deaths
Squid Game season 3 has officially landed on our screens, as the show wraps up the nail-biting drama which was initiated in season 2. After a six month wait, we fiiiiinally get a resolution to the twisty arcs introduced in the last season, with some major turns in the narrative.
To recap, the second season sees Seong Gi-hun, who won the game in the first season, returns to the game in order to end it once and for all. He's joined by Hwang Jun-ho, a police officer who infiltrated the game to find his missing brother, only to discover his brother is the Front Man - the overseer of the game, who won a previous edition and, after doing so, lost his faith in humanity.
The third season returns to the set-up of the second season and, after a failed rebellion, takes the audience into a set of games of escalating danger as the future of the players hangs in the balance.
As is the nature of the game, the third season sees a huge number of mortalities among the players. So, if you're wondering who dies, we've got the full details (in order).
In the first episode of the third season, we deal with the aftermaths of the failed rebellion at the end of season 2. The majority of players who joined Gi-hun's strike team are confirmed as dead, this includes Oh Young-il (Player 001), Seon Han-nam (Player 015), Kwon Byeong-su (Player 047), Player 072, Player 145, Player 206, Player 324 and Park Jung-bae (Player 390). Cho Hyun-ju and Kang Dae-ho, however, have not been executed and remain alive.
Elsewhere in the episode, the pink guard No-eul kills the organ traffickers as part of her plan to save Gyeong-seok.
After forcing the doctor to stabilise Gyeong-seok in the last episode, No-eul kills him after Gyeong-seok recovers.
The second episode continues the deadly game of Hide and Seek begun in the first episode, which sees armed taggers hunting and killing hiders who are attempting to find and unlock exits with different types of keys.
Jun-hee goes into labour, with Hyun-ju (Player 120) helping her give birth. Myung-gi kills Hyun-ju despite her helping deliver his ex-girlfriend's baby.
Min-su is under the influence of Thanos's drugs and hallucinates that Seon-nyeo is Nam-gyu, killing her.
Dae-ho is killed by Gi-hun, who is looking to take revenge after he abandoned the revolt.
When Yong-sik attempts to kill Jun-hee, Geum-ja (who, let's remind you, is his mother) stabs him in order to thwart his efforts. Yong-sik is the killed by guards.
The eliminated players are killed by VIPs posing as soldiers.
Geum-ja pleads with Gi-hun to protect Jun-hee and her child, then commits suicide out of guilt for her role in her son's death.
Nam-gyu also dies after Min-Su throws Thanos's necklace (where he stashed his drugs, à la Cruel Intentions). Nam-gyu is experiencing withdrawal, so he jumps to catch it but instead falls to his death during the Jump Rope game.
Still in the Jump Rope game, Jun-hee (who has broken her angle) jumps off the ledge to her death after her baby is safely carried to the next round by Gi-hun.
Captain Park is shot with a harpoon by Jun-ho and admits he was "just following orders,' therefore confirming he was reporting to the Front Man.
No-eul kills the Officer after a tense confrontation where she forces him to destroy all records of Gyeong-seok's participation.
In the final game of Sky Squid Game, players push each other to their death.
Min-su dies in the first round, as his withdrawal symptoms from Thanos's drugs make him an easy target.
The remaining eight players kill each other in the following order: Player 336, Player 353, Player 203, Player 100 and Player 039.
Three then remain: Myung-gi, Gi-hun and the baby of Jun-hee, who took Jun-hee's place as Player 222.
This one is tense! Still in the Sky Squid Game, the final three players are engaged in a fight to the death in the show's finale.
When just Myung-gi, Gi-hun and the baby are left, Myung-gi (who, let us remind you, is the baby's father) attempts to kill the baby so that he can win the game. Gi-hun attacks Myung-gi, who falls to his death.
Due to the complicated rules of the game, which require you to press the button to officially start the button, Myung-gi's death doesn't count: amidst all the drama, no-one pressed the button.
Gi-hun then presses the button to start a new round and sacrifices himself so that the baby can live and become the show's winner.

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