Educational centres in Malaga and surrounding areas are now sending circulars to parents (via WhatsApp or email) to explicitly ask not to allow their children to see the series and are being alerted to the effects that it may have on them, whose criteria on good and evil or the differences between reality and fiction are still being formed. The letter alerts parents to the content of ‘The Squid Game’ and offers the necessary context to understand that it is a widely extended phenomenon: “A few days ago, the news about some children broke out in a school in San Sebastián de Los Reyes (Madrid) who were imitating this series in the schoolyard and shot the children who lost, as happens in the series. In other countries like Belgium, there have also been similar cases: children play English hide-and-seek and the one who loses is beaten, ” said the circular.