Player 001 goes without saying. Number one is the most powerful number, the first number, and the number that was assigned to Oh Il-nam who was the creator of the Squid Game. It seems very suspicious that Gi-hun wouldn’t even question his authenticity after everything that happened with 001 last time?!

The layers come into play, though, when you start moving those pieces around the game board, and Squid Game does a brilliant job of that in its second season, when it puts the Front Man into the game as player 001—except the viewers are the only ones who know who he really is.