How to survive the Squid Games using probability theory

In this paper, we consider how probability theory can be used to determine the survival strategy in two of the Squid Game" and Squid Game: The Challenge" challenges: the Hopscotch and the Warships. We show how Hopscotch can be easily tackled with the knowledge of the binomial distribution, taught in introductory statistics courses, while Warships is a much more complex problem, which can be tackled at different levels.