Squid Game has finally returned for its third season – picking up after the dramatic end to the episodes released over Christmas last year. Viewers are finally able to dive in and binge them all. Player 456 is back and will be continuing his quest to end the titular games for good. The creator of the series has ominously promised there will not be a 鈥渉appy ending鈥 to the story. Sign up for our NationalWorld newsletter – delivered Mon-Fri to your inbox. You might be wondering if more is planned for the show. Here鈥檚 all you need to know: The show premiered back in 2021 and quickly took the world by storm. After a lengthy wait it finally returned for a second series on Boxing Day 2024 – with the third season arriving today (June 27), just six months later. However it has previously been announced that Squid Game will be concluding with its third and final season. But it might not totally be the end of the world of the show – as a spin-off has been teased. Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the hit series, has floated an idea for exploring the three-year gap that takes place between Squid Game鈥檚 first two seasons. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly he said: 鈥淚 actually had this faint ideation about possibly a spinoff 鈥 not a sequel, but maybe a spinoff about the three-year gap between season 1 and season 2 when Gi-hun [Lee Jung-jae] looks around for the recruiters. 鈥淭here is that three-year period, and maybe I could have a portrayal of what the recruiters or Captain Park [Oh Dal-su] or officers or masked men were doing in that period, not inside the gaming arena, but their life outside of that. So that is some vague ideation that I have that could possibly be developed in the future.” Netflix鈥檚 spin-off reality show Squid Game: The Challenge, which was released between November and December 2023, will be back in the future. A second season of the show has been announced by the streaming service. Have you got a story you want to share with our readers? You can now send it to us online via YourWorld at www.yourworld.net/submit. It’s free to use and, once checked, your story will appear on our website and, space allowing, in our newspapers.