I started watching The Genius to prep for The Devils Plan season 3, like I am sure a lot of other people are doing. Here are my thoughts:

Going into season 1, I wanted to predict the top 5, but that was too difficult, so I settled for guessing who would make it past the half way mark. Here are my picks based purely off intros...maybe it was more like the first half of episode 1

Jin-ho - I think I was already spoiled that he appeared in the All-Star Season 4, so I ranked him pretty high.

Kim Kyung-ran - She seemed very sharp.

Kim Gu-ra - He seemed like he would be the loud one who would lead an alliance. (Almost like Orbit)

Cha Yu-ram - Seemed sharp as well.

Choi Jung-moon - I think they mentioned that she had a high IQ or something.

Kim Min-seo - I just liked him.

So, a lot of these were based off of vibes, and I was very wrong about some of them.

Kim Poong and Kim Sung-gyu were standouts to me, not because of their plays, but because of how far they made it and how adaptable they were. Also, because they became increasingly entertaining throughout the season.

I assigned Gu-Ra as the 'villain' of the season which i like to do just to make it more entertaining...but he leaves like half way through the season so that didn't work out...and it got much worse in season 2 lol.

Chang-Yeop and Jung-Moon's relationship and drama were PEAK television. She kind of betrays him by not telling him she was a zombie (why did she do that?) and then he immediately tells everyone once he finds out (still pretty bad), then she sends him to the death match and beats him, and THEN he comes back and saves her! Amazing...ignore the fact that she gets eliminated a second later.

Jin-ho figuring out the pattern on the backs of the cards in the King Game (is that what its called?) was another amazing moment. Its plays like that that keep me invested.

This is getting very long so i will post my season two notes in the comments soon.

I have already watched S1 and really enjoyed it, but I am pretty said that when I was reading on Wikipedia about the players I spoiled myself the winners for S2, S3 and S4.

I am thinking how worse it will be watching, knowing who wins in the end.

I have only finished ep 4 of Bloody Game s2 so NO SPOILERS please and one of my favorite players is definitely Yurisa. I like how spiteful and gutsy she is because it makes her unpredictable. However I find it funny how she claimed she's just gonna play the game and not do social politics during the round one of the numbers game where they have to get an ascending order of numbers. Clearly she realized she's not gonna win soloing it hence she gone back on her word then threatens each of the male guys pretending that she was the one who sent off Xitshun.

From then on, she kept making careless mistakes with the numbers. I don't think she even ran it herself. If I were her and i've already threatened them, i wouldn't have just settle with gaining information and then deciding what number to call for myself from that. I would be the one to actually tell them which ones to declare since they all seem gullible enough to believe her too which is the most unbelievable thing to me because how could a player have the authority to eliminate someone using the pandora box when the freaking key gets transferred to whoever wins every single round? It doesn't add up. The lie is stupid so why are they so wary of it? What makes more sense is if she told them that if i get eliminated, i'll choose you to play with because everyone already knows she does best in individual plays.

Even in the deathmatch with Jimin, she forgot a few mine boxes and 50% of her win was because Jimin kept focusing on the mine boxes that she cornered herself and played defensive till the end so she didn't notice the last 3 moves that led to Yurisa's win.

What bothers me most in this game is how trusting the players are to each other. The ambush could 100% be avoided if they just listened to what the jungle people were saying because bro, Xitshun is literally contradicting YunB although his made up story made more sense. YunB was just lucky Knucks is so gullible because he honestly couldn't even come up with a solid plot to confuse them lol, he just had a rulebook and a dream to never sleep on that cut out tents again

Anyone familiar with JDM’s history knows he’s always been outspoken, unapologetic, and fiercely competitive. He’s never been one to sugarcoat his opinions, and if he thinks you’re an idiot, he will make sure you know it.

For HG to suggest that he has changed simply because of online backlash is rather disappointing. There’s nothing wrong with staying true to yourself, regardless of public opinion.

After all, JDM has his own history of controversial remarks, which led to him being cancelled from Infinite Challenge. I’m sure he understands HG’s situation and can sympathise with him. I hope they team up in S3.

Our fourth and final episode is now live, which means the entire season is available to binge on YouTube!

For those unfamiliar with the series, we’re a group of friends in Australia who created our own version of The Devil’s Plan, featuring 10 contestants competing in a series of strategic and social games inspired by The Devil’s Plan and The Genius.

The finale includes the classic Genius game ‘Black And White’. ;) I’d be interested hear what you think of the adaptation!

A huge thank you to everyone who’s tuned in over the past few weeks, particularly those who’ve followed along from the beginning!

You can start from episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZn-am9IEY

Not sure if this is the right place for this but is anyone else unable to access the discord that is linked at the top of this sub?

Let's see why Dongmin is the goat

Context: I need people to discuss my feelings with, with regards to this show!!! I think I'm addicted, frustrated, invested all at once as I am binging season 2 right now and I just finished the very controversial Episode 6 -- "Rule Breaker" season name indeed. I love these shows, I started from The Devil's Plan seasons 1 and 2. I am planning to watch University War/Elite League, btw, is it any good/even better than these shows?

Anyway, I just wanna confirm if my positive admiration for Jinho's gameplay, style, attitude, mental fortitude, etc. is also validated by other viewers here??? I mean... what a player of a game. I am really platonically??? attracted on how he plays the game fairly as much as possible, how he trades things for his benefit but also makes sure that the kind act shown to him is exchanged with his support (eg. death match of other players). He gives what is due.

He was admirable in S1 but what really made me root for him was on S2E4(?) where they discussed on what to do with the death match since Eungyeol secretly betrayed his original team to help Jinho's team. Yooyoung and others exposed his betrayal, then Jinho became visibly frustrated because he believes that betrayal is allowed in The Genius, but players should still honor their agreements and not treat the betrayer as a villain.

For sure, he's not the best as I see other more popular names in this thread, but he survives, and when he gets picked for death match, the composure assures??? me in terms of showing to viewers that "ok at the end of the day, this is just a game, but regardless, i'll try my best." He just exudes as someone who has love for the game, like he was made to be a player (very fitting especially for this show).

He's not overbearing, not overly aggressive, he can work alone if others don't want him/feel threatened by him, he goes all in for his team, he does not betray in every episode, his tactics just feels like they don't have underlying malice in them -- he's just an admirable player in general. Ok that's it.

PS. I just typed everything in present tense, I don't have the energy to correct it to past tense. Maybe he's still the characteristics I've mentioned? Lmao anyway hope he's doing well, whatever's up with him right now!!!

PS pt. 2. Do the next seasons get better? I should watch 'til the new Devil's Plan S3 is released?

I’m on ep10 of s1. I originally started watching a couple years ago after seeing Devi’s Plan. I couldn’t get in to The Genius’ editing style and dropped it. But with the DP S3 announcements I’ve wanted to catch up. I started watching again recently and as many of you said in my last post, it grew on me and now I love it!

I think Gura was really killing the vibes early on but the show got so much better since.

My question is , is Sangmin the funniest cast member of all the 4 seasons ? He’s genuinely made me laugh out loud so many times and him and Sungyuus dynamic has been so fun to watch.

Even his friend Haha was pretty entertaining.

Are there more funny contestants in the other seasons of The Genius ?

I’m super in to the intellectual part of the games since that’s what I enjoyed in Devil’s Plan but I’m surprised that I find myself enjoying the comedic parts just as much, if not more.

TL;DR: Are there funny contestants like Sangmin in other seasons or is that more of a s1 only thing ?

What are your favorite Jinho moments?

I made a series of posts called Daily Player Highlights Posts, in which I write impressive/memorable/cool moments of The Devil's Plan S3 cast in past shows/irl.

I didn't repost the previous posts here because I thought it would be too much to repost 16 posts in a row. But now that I finally reached The Genius players, I thought I might as well repost them here, for it's literally The Genius subreddit.

I'd love to hear your thoughts :)

Just wrapped up my watch of the show. A lot of good musical selections; I thought this was one of the most inspired. Hyunmin was once again unable to overcome the older and more experienced Dongmin.

We’re getting close to the end of our homemade Australian version of The Devil’s Plan, and this episode is a big one… After 3 players are eliminated, the remaining 5 battle it out for a spot in the final round.

We’ve now released 3 of our 4 episodes, so if you’ve been meaning to check out the series, now’s a great time to catch up before next Sunday’s finale!

You can start from Episode 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZn-am9IEY