'Squid Game: The Challenge' Crowns Mai Whelan as Winner in First Season

The reality show, based on the popular South Korean drama, ends with a series of rock, paper, scissors rounds, and is renewed for a second season by Netflix.

Mai Whelan, an immigration adjudicator, grandmother, and Navy veteran from Virginia, won the $4.56 million prize in the first season of Netflix's 'Squid Game: The Challenge'.
The reality show, based on the South Korean drama 'Squid Game', saw contestants play schoolyard games for a chance to win a cash prize, with no one actually dying unlike in the original drama.
The final game came down to a series of rounds of rock, paper, scissors between Mai and Phill Cain, a scuba instructor from Hawaii.
Netflix has renewed 'Squid Game: The Challenge' for a second season, following the success of the first season.
Contestants on the show had to pretend to die when they were eliminated, with a squib of black ink popping under their shirts.