Out of 456, one player was named the winner of the Netflix reality TV show, walking away with the multi-million dollar cash prize. <\/p>
Warning \u2013 spoilers for Squid Game: The Challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n After nine intense episodes, filled with challenges, twists and lots of eliminations, the first season of Squid Game: The Challenge<\/a> came to an end with the winner being revealed.<\/p>\n Player 287, real name Mai Whelan<\/strong>, was named the first winner of Squid Game: The Challenge and awarded the $4.56 million cash prize.<\/p>\n The finale saw the three remaining contestants<\/a> \u2013 players 016 (Sam), 451 (Phill) and 287 (Mai) competing in the last events of the show.<\/p>\n Mai took home the top prize of $4.56 million during the season finale episode after playing a high-stakes game of rock paper scissors. <\/span><\/p>\n The 55-year-old Virginia native played against runner-up Phill Cain, a scuba instructor from Hawaii.<\/span><\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday 22nd November, the reality TV show launched on Netflix<\/a> with 456 players, following the success of the Korean drama series Squid Game<\/a>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n Similar to the parent show, The Challenge saw the players competing in the well-known events such as Red Light, Green Light, dalgona (also known as the cookie cutter game), marbles and the glass bridge game, which designers revealed was the \u201ctrickiest\u201d to create<\/a>.<\/p> Contestants were shocked, however, as a new game was introduced in episode 3 in another shock twist<\/a>.<\/p>\n The show\u2019s creators later revealed why tug of war was excluded from the show<\/a>, saying: \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t feel true to the spirit of Squid Game if we just trotted out all of the same games, one after another, in the same order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n