The Genius: Rule Breaker
| The Genius: Rule Breaker | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Release | |
| Original network | tvN |
| Original release | December 7, 2013 – February 22, 2014 |
| Additional information | |
| Celebrity winner | Lee Sang-min |
| Season chronology | |
The Genius: Rule Breaker (더 지니어스:룰 브레이커) is the second season of The Genius, which debuted on tvN on December 7, 2013.
(in alphabetical order)
Token of Immortality
This season introduced a new element to the gameplay, the Token of Immortality. Until found, the winner of each round was given a hint as to the location and how to obtain this token, which could be used to exempt oneself from a Deathmatch.
In episode 6, Lee Sang-min found the token, using the clue he obtained as the winner of episode 5, and clues disclosed by Lim Yo-hwan. The token was accompanied by a fake token, which was used in episode 6 by Lee Doo-hee. Lee Sang-min gave up his token to Lim Yo-hwan, in episode 10.
Footnotes
^1 The winners are guest players.
Footnotes
^1 The winners of Round 11 were the guest players: Hong Jin-ho, Lee Doo-hee and Lee Da-hye. They received 20,000,000 Won (approximately $20,000 USD) which was shared evenly among the 10 eliminated players with each receiving 2,000,000 Won (approximately $2,000 USD). As a result, none of the Genius players won. By default, the first-place winner amongst the contestants was Lee Sang-min, who received immunity for the round.
All 13 contestants were secretly assigned an animal identity at the start of the game. Four animals are predators (Lion, Alligator, Eagle, Hyena) while the others are all prey (Otter, Chameleon, Mouse, Snake, Deer, Duck, Rabbit, Crow, Plover). Before the game, each player also gets to peek at the identity of one other player.
The game is played in four rounds. In each round, the animals all move to one of four "habitats" - Forest, Field, River, and Sky - based on the rooms of the studio. Predators attack other animals in the same habitat by putting a sticker on their prey; if a higher-ranked predator attacks a lower-ranked animal, the animal is eaten and removed from the game. Also, each of the predators are only allowed to starve for a certain number of rounds, and die if they do not attack enough prey. After each round, all surviving animals are given the choice to move to a different habitat, but all animals have a "home" habitat that they must return to the following round.
Each animal has unique abilities and win conditions. The Lion wins if it survives the game, and can attack any other animal (except the Snake), but must eat in every round or else it starves to death. The Alligator ranks just below the Lion, and can starve for one round, but must also survive to win. The Eagle is next, and is the only predator that can live in the Sky, but it must also survive without going hungry more than once. The Hyena is the lowest-ranked predator, and can starve twice before dying, but its only condition for winning is that the Lion dies. The Snake is considered prey, but any animal that tries to attack it dies; it wins if at least nine other animals die over the course of the game. The Chameleon is able to mask itself as any other animal in the peeking phase. The Plover, AKA the Alligator Bird, wins if the Alligator survives. Similarly, the Mouse wins if the Lion survives. The Crow only has to correctly predict another animal that will win in order to win themselves. Finally, the Deer, Rabbit, Duck, and Otter are all immune to attack if all surviving members of this group are in the same habitat in the same round; each of them must survive in order to win.
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