The Devil's Plan
The Devil's Plan (Korean: 데블스 플랜) is a South Korean reality game show. The first season premiered on September 26, 2023, on Netflix. Twelve contestants compete in both collaborative and competitive strategy games in order to win a cash prize.
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 Promotional poster | |
| Hangul | 데블스 플랜 |
| Literal meaning | Devil's Plan |
| Revised Romanization | Debeulseu peullaen |
| Genre | Reality competition |
| Directed by | Jung Jong-yeon |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Netflix |
| Original release | September 26 – October 10, 2023 |
Format
Twelve celebrity contestants are initially given one "Piece". A player with no Pieces is eliminated; Pieces can be traded between players or spent on in-game benefits. Pieces can be won and lost in the two daily matches: the Main Match and the Prize Match.
After the competitive Main Match, the two surviving players with the fewest Pieces are sent to prison until the next Main Match. The player or players with the most Pieces make tie-breaking decisions about who is sent to prison. The collaborative Prize Match determines whether a sum of money—₩50,000,000 or ₩100,000,000—is added to the final pot, which can total up to ₩500,000,000.[1]
Games featured include social deduction games, board games, card games and abstract strategy games like nine men's morris. Main Matches typically see players forming alliances, while the Prize Matches test skills including memorization, numerical calculation and visualization.
Combining three different types of pieces forms an octahedron-like shape from which the clue "NEXT YEAR" can be read. Using this clue—by typing 2024 into a hidden safe in the prison—unlocks a variant of Gomoku in which the player must remember the colour of each piece.
Contestants
Most of the contestants are singers, actors or entertainers.[2][3]
| Name | Age | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Kwak Joon-bin (곽준빈) | 31 | YouTuber |
| ORBIT (재혁) | 40 | Blue House’s former policy advisor |
| Guillaume Patry (기욤 패트리) | 41 | E-Sports Player |
| Kim Dong-jae (김동재) | 24 | College student and pro poker player |
| Park Kyeong-rim (박경림) | 44 | TV personality |
| Seo Dong-joo (서동주) | 40 | US-based lawyer |
| Seo Yoo-min (서유민) | 31 | American orthopedic surgeon |
| Boo Seung-kwan (부승관) | 25 | Singer |
| Lee Si-won (이시원) | 36 | Actress |
| Lee Hye-sung (이혜성) | 30 | Freelance announcer |
| Cheo Yeon-woo (조연우) | 34 | Professional Go Player |
| Ha Seok-jin (하석진) | 41 | Actor |
Episodes
| Ep. | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Episode 1" | 26-09-2023 |
| 2 | "Episode 2" | 26-09-2023 |
| 3 | "Episode 3" | 26-09-2023 |
| 4 | "Episode 4" | 26-09-2023 |
| 5 | "Episode 5" | 3-10-2023 |
| 6 | "Episode 6" | 3-10-2023 |
| 7 | "Episode 7" | 3-10-2023 |
| 8 | "Episode 8" | 3-10-2023 |
| 9 | "Episode 9" | 3-10-2023 |
| 10 | "Episode 10" | 10-10-2023 |
| 11 | "Episode 11" | 10-10-2023 |
| 12 | "Episode 12" | 10-10-2023 |
Eliminations and numbers of pieces
| Contestant | Day 1 | Game 1 | Day 2 | Game 2 | Day 3 | Game 3 | Day 4 | Game 4 | Night 4 | Day 5 | Game 5 | Night 5 | Day 6 | Game
6 |
Night 6 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ha Seok-jin (하석진) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 22 | Winner |
| ORBIT (재혁) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 14 | Runner Up |
| Seo Dong-joo (서동주) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 11 | |
| Kwak Joon-bin (곽준빈) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Seo Yoo-min (서유민) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Boo Seung-kwan (부승관) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Park Kyung-lim (박경림) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Lee Si-won (이시원) | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Cho Yeon-woo (조연우) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Kim Dong-jae (김동재) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Lee Hye-sung (이혜성) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Guillaume Patry (기욤 패트리) | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Production
The program was produced by Jeong Jong-yeon, who has worked in the survival reality show genre before, such as on The Genius. He said that adjustments were made as the show progressed because the contestants' behavior was unpredictable. Runner-up ORBIT, who lacked competitiveness, played with an unusual strategy by collaborating to save players from elimination. Jeong said that it was not the direction he wanted the games to progress in but that it created a new narrative for the genre.[4]
The first season concluded with Ha Seok-jin winning ₩250,000,000. Ha did not expect to win and was unfamiliar with the genre, but sought to prove that people in their 40s could still display intelligence. He came to understand why players were emotional at others' eliminations, as the cast were completely isolated from the outside world; he was upset at Si-won's elimination.[4]
References
- "The Devil's Plan Episodes 5-9: Explaining the games". Dexerto. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- 강민경. "[공식] 하석진→이혜성·세븐틴 승관, 일주일 동안 5억 두고 싸운다('데블스 플랜')". entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- "The Devil's Plan cast: All contestants in new Netflix reality series". Dexerto. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- Lee, Gyu-lee (October 18, 2023). "'The Devil's Plan' creator, winner unveil strategy behind survival game show". The Korea Times. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
External links
- Official website (in Korean)
- The Devil's Plan on Netflix