Fourteen cunning, brilliant people are brought together to battle it out in intense strategic games for a shot at 500 million won — roughly $350,000. But who has the mental prowess to outwit and outlast all of their competitors? The second season of the reality competition show, The Devil’s Plan: Death Room, is more cutthroat than ever: Players are rewarded for making deals, trading tokens, imprisoning their fellow competitors … Heck, there are even trap doors. Read on to find out everything else you need to know about the latest installment of the Korean series. 

When will The Devil’s Plan: Death Room be released?

Stream the first nine episodes now. The final three episodes will premiere May 20. 

Justin H. Min

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Where can I find the trailer for The Devil’s Plan: Death Room?

Check it out at the top of this page. 

From left to right, The Devil’s Plan: Death Room contestants Park Sang-yeon, Tinno, Jeong Hyun-gyu, Kang Ji-yeong, Lee Se-dol, Kim Ha-rin, CHUU, 7high, Choi Hyun-Joon, Lee Seung-hyun, Yoon So-hui, and Justin H. Min

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Who’s in the cast of The Devil’s Plan: Death Room?

The new crew of contestants is full of brainiac gamers, actors, lawyers, surgeons, pop stars, and more.

• Lee Se-dol, a renowned former professional Go player who famously faced off with an AI opponent in 2016
• Justin H. Min, an American actor known for his roles in The Umbrella Academy and BEEF who graduated from Cornell University
• Kyuhyun, a singer and musician, formerly a member of the boy band SUPER JUNIOR
• Kang Ji-yeong, an anchor for South Korean TV channel JTBC
• Jeong Hyun-gyu, a physical education student at Seoul National University who achieved a record-breaking Mensa Korea IQ test score
• Yoon So-hui, an actor and biochemical and chemical engineering major who graduated from KAIST
• CHUU, a singer and former member of the pop groups Loona and yyxy
• Choi Hyun-joon, a senior studying mathematics at KAIST, a yo-yo-er, and a model
• 7high, music producer and professional poker player
• Son Eun-yu, a graduate of Ewha Women’s University Law School who works in corporate mergers and acquisitions at a top law firm in South Korea
• Tinno, who runs a YouTube channel about board games
• Kim Ha-rin, a plastic surgeon who graduated from Yonsei University
• Park Sang-yeon, a med student at Yonsei University and a 2021 International Physics Olympian and gold medalist
• Lee Seung-hyun, Miss Korea 2022 and an economics student at Korea University

Kang Ji-yeong

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What happens in The Devil’s Plan: Death Room? What are the rules? 

The Devil’s Plan: Death Room takes the game from Season 1 to the next level. For starters, there are more contestants: 14 vs. last season’s 12. And this time, the dorms no longer double as jail cells. Now there’s a separate part of the compound called the prison area, where those with the fewest pieces are sent. (More on that in a bit.) 

The tokens earned in the game, called “pieces,” have also undergone significant revision. Players still get one piece at the beginning of their stay, earn more by winning matches, and use the coins for negotiations. But in Death Room, pieces can also be used to buy items and elevate contestants’ living quarters. If players have too few pieces at the end of a match, they’re sent to the prison area, where they must face off against one another to stay in the game. Pieces are not only doled out based on game performance, but also taken away when players are penalized. If a player happens to lose all of their pieces, they’re immediately eliminated. This season, pieces will also serve as keys to the hidden stages — plural. Yes, the hidden stage that appeared in Season 1, which reveals a new and potentially lucrative part of the game, has doubled.

Lastly, this time around, there’s no prize match. Instead, each day there’s both a main match and a prison match. In the main match, players can either lose or gain pieces. When players achieve the objectives for each game, they can earn and accumulate a specified number of pieces. At the end of the match, the half with the fewest pieces move to the prison area. When the number of players doesn’t divide evenly, the majority go to the prison area, where the prison match happens. This challenge involves players with the fewest pieces. Similar to a death match, in the prison match, the player with the lowest performance is eliminated. At the end of the competition, whoever has the most pieces wins the competition and the cash prize.

Where can I find out more about The Devil’s Plan? 

New to the show? To learn about the series’ first season, check out this guide. 

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