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The numbers behind Squid Game

Netflix has announced that South Korean survival drama Squid Game is its most popular series ever.
We scrutinise the statistics behind the claim, and look at the odds of surviving one of the show’s deadly contests.

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9 minutes

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Mon 25 Oct 2021 09:50GMT
BBC World Service

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