Round 5 is the round of the Bermuda Triangle. 648 players went in and were never seen again:
| Game Master | Survived | Played | Starting # | Lost | Defected | Remaining |
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1 | Eric | 80 | 120 | 298 | 40 | | 258 |
| Mark_K | 80 | 120 | 250 | 40 | | 210 |
| Onuzq | 80 | 120 | 206 | 40 | | 166 |
4 | eyebooger | 68 | 100 | 202 | 32 | 19 | 189 |
| Gadarene | 68 | 100 | 147 | 32 | 19 | 134 |
6 | Doctor Zeus | 64 | 100 | 219 | 36 | 41 | 224 |
7 | Zurvan | 43 | 52 | 375 | 9 | -41 | 325 |
8 | filthyvermin | 25 | 52 | 306 | 27 | -23 | 256 |
9 | bsball8806 | 18 | 52 | 311 | 34 | -16 | 261 |
10 | Bloobird | 0 | 216 | 288 | 216 | | 72 |
| lukethefluke | 0 | 216 | 264 | 216 | | 48 |
| Paasei | 0 | 216 | 216 | 216 | | 0 |
I don't know WTF happened. Did they read the rules correctly? Have they been levelling each other to the point of this grandiose suicide pact? Only they will be able to tell.
Fact is, all three players submitted the exact same sequence for their 12 rounds. GJGE.
Behind the Unbrella and Star doors, three way pacts resulted in losing the minimum.
Behind the Circle door, bsball and filthy missed an opportunity to collude vs Zurvan. The first thing they had to do is submit a decent number and not lowball. Something like 100-150. Then all they have to do is submit the exact same thing. Zurvan can do nothing, he will lose his entire team, while the EV for bsball and filthy is to lose half their team, depending on how well Zurvan guesses.
As played, lowballing 52 will almost certainly result in all three Game Masters losing exactly 50 players and that is precisely what happened.
Zurvan was "lucky" in the EEN-TWW-DRIE-PLOF! game and lost only 9 men, but that luck transferred to Doctor Zeus, who gladly received 41 defectors. For the second time in a row she gains a couple of men in a round of the Squid game!
eyebooger and Gadarene share 4th place and equally divide the 23+16 players that defect from bsball and filthy. Unlucky for one player, 39 isn't divisible by two, so that odd player was executed on the spot. This is the Squid game, it has to be fair, right?