Less action, but more tension. From the moment we and Gi-hun realized what the game was, we knew it was going to be a suspense-filled game as players tried to carefully prize a shape from honeycomb cookie without breaking it.
Watching players timidly jab away at the cookies with just a needle was torture, particularly poor old Gi-hun, who was stuck with the most difficult shape to execute — an umbrella.
Some desperate players tragically snapped segments of their cookie shapes and that was it — they were out (dead). Mi-nyeo and Gi-hun use their intelligence to get their way out of the game as the former uses a lighter to heat a needle and the latter melts the cookie away by repeatedly licking out.
When Gi-hun does this, it sparks a furious frenzy of other players frantically licking away at their honeycomb to prize their shape out. The game was made all the tense by the fact that it ended with a player, who lost, taking hostage of a guard.