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The impossible quiz

redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfixRegistered User regular
edited March 2007 in Games and Technology
Ok, my stepdaughter showed me this, and i'm hooked. I'm on like question 40 something, and damn. I should be doing not-this.

Anyway

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/365143

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  • LogicowLogicow Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    This quizz is seriously flawed.

    I can only go through the same questions over and over again so many times before it gets annoying.

    For those of you who haven't tried it, my advice is, don't try it. It's a waste of time.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Is This Quiz Fun?

    A: Kenny Loggins
    B: Ice Cream
    C: Jaguar Eats Your Face
    D: 4

    The correct answer is hidden on page 0 of this thread. (It happens to be "no".)

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  • Recoil42Recoil42 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Clever concept, but some of the questions are purposely ambiguous, vague, and assholish. Especially when so many of of the answers deal with word play and visual cues, you can't ask a question like "The answer is really big"

    and give the choices:

    "ANSWER"
    REALLY BIG
    (infinity symbol)
    an elephant




    .....the correct choice being the last of the above. Really, just simply frustrating and assholish in the worst way.

    And I mean, once you get past the first five questions or so, it pretty much all becomes blind guessing.

    edit: Another example:

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    The 'answer' according to the game/quiz thing is "n"

    It's stupid, because you can't answer the questions logically OR laterally -- you literally have to crapshoot guess as to what the question is asking you in the first place, and sometimes, it doesn't even make sense at all.

    Just terrible.

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  • Disco BanditDisco Bandit Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I tried playing, but the one where it gives you a blank page and says "SEARCH" at the top defeated me. What is the answer to that one?

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Actually, the only ones that are really hard are the questions that make no sense.

    Here, the answers:

    1.
    It's a Polo t-shirt. Four holes
    2.
    No, but a tin can
    3.
    K.O.
    4.
    Click on "The Answer" in the question
    5.
    Go around the outside of the window
    6.
    Shallots
    7.
    An elephant is really big
    8.
    It's about under the SE in SEARCH
    9.
    It's the upper right option, it points to the lower left.
    10
    "Chews food" It's the teeth.
    11
    It's the n, I don't know why.
    12
    Click the tittle above the "i" in "Click"
    13
    F'Taang
    14
    Torch
    15
    Type out "Horse" on the onscreen keyboard
    16
    T-H-E-A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T... H is the seventh letter.
    17
    24 - 7 = 17. Click the question number.
    18
    Stop... Hammertime.
    19
    Blue, Orange, Green, Green, Yellow
    20
    Seal. I don't know why.
    21
    Upper left
    22
    +1 Skip
    23
    Bran. I don't know why.
    24
    It says "Click the V in Lives"
    25
    Shoe Polish. I don't know why. There's silver in it maybe.
    26
    Arsefacey isn't a real place.
    27
    Look at the number.
    28
    Abundance. A Bun dance. Get it?
    29
    Egg mayonnaise. I don't know why.
    30
    Not difficult
    31
    Three woofs.
    32
    Babycham and human feces
    33
    H-I-S-H-A-N-D. 7
    34
    Move your mouse off the window. Wait. Very well executed, that one.
    35
    Just wait a seconds.
    36
    A walk.
    37
    Nope.
    38
    Mary Rose. I love that joke.
    39
    Cylindrical adventures.
    40
    Right click, use the pop up to bridge the gap
    41
    Clicken le afro.
    42
    Click the 42nd one. Going left to right. It's near the bottom left.
    43
    Tom Cruise. I don't know why.
    44
    Do the puzzle. There's a spot that's locked in place, so you should be fine.
    45
    Wingdings. "Potatos fly." is the question. The upper right answer, "WRONG!" is correct.
    46
    OMGF U KILLS SONIKKU U BASTID
    47
    Just click it, it's not too hard.
    48
    SNAAAAAAKE!
    49
    SPLAPP-ME-DO
    50
    O.K. (remember, blue-red-blue-yellow
    51
    Nothing to do here but click alot.
    52
    It's the third one.
    53
    Marmite... but pa might not. HAHA.
    54
    No, about 20cm off the ground.
    55
    A games console... I dont' get it.
    56
    Remember, blue-red-blue-yellow.
    57
    Count the draculas. There's one.
    58
    Shepherd's Pie. See, they spelled "favourite" with a U, so you pick the British answer.
    59
    Click a ton, really fast.
    60
    Better say yes
    61
    Thumbs up
    62
    It's simple. Click the moss.
    63
    Tasteless white filth. How can he not like McNuggets? They're best McNugget of all.
    64
    EGG > 28. I don't know why.
    65
    Click the word Largest
    66
    Click the exclamation point
    67
    A big hairy arsonist
    68
    Move the mouse along the cat. It's like a stupid version of nintendogs.
    69
    LOL, 69
    70
    Using its anus. That's stupid.
    71
    Upper left, same as the first time. Have to click when it's green though
    72
    On the far left, around the center (top-bottom wise)
    73
    Top right box. It's the exact same question mark as the one near the question number. The others are slightly different.
    74
    No one knows that
    75
    An escape button appears just below the question number after the bomb is lit
    76
    Sugar... Honey, honey.
    77
    Question 77
    78
    Four. That was the answer to question 1, if you remember. The others weren't answers.
    79
    Click the U in the "What do you mean?" response. It's a horseshoe, get it?
    80
    Filthy Romanians
    81
    rub the lightning rod to generate a charge
    82
    Click each toenail... be quick about it!
    83
    National Dyslexic Assocation... it's kinda funny.
    84
    Shooting star minigame. Really kind of fun. Avoid the asteroids with your pointer, and hit the shooting star to move on. You can get free question skips here too.
    85
    I loved it!
    86
    The Prince
    87
    The dot is missing from the question number
    88
    Click VERY quickly
    89
    Blindness
    90
    Nonce
    91

    That's as far as I've gotten so far.

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    So it's not a quiz, it's a series of riddles. Not the good kind, the kind that have almost infinite answers with the answers they are looking for don't make sense unless you look at it through an incredibly limited spectrum and even then there's some obvious flaw that is overlooked because otherwise someone would get the riddle without fucking hearing it.

    Right?

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Goomba wrote: »
    So it's not a quiz, it's a series of riddles. Not the good kind, the kind that have almost infinite answers with the answers they are looking for don't make sense unless you look at it through an incredibly limited spectrum and even then there's some obvious flaw that is overlooked because otherwise someone would get the riddle without fucking hearing it.

    Right?


    Actually, some of the puzzles are kind of creative, and use the flash tools in an interesting way.

    If you removed the ones that are a question and an answer where it's completely impossible to get right without trial-and-error, it would be pretty good. Of course, you'd be missing like fifteen to twenty questions.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I liked that first one with the buttons. I do not like that you only get 3 tries and then it's like "DO ALL THE ONES YOU GOT RIGHT ALREADY. AGAIN."

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  • GoombaGoomba __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2007
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Goomba wrote: »
    So it's not a quiz, it's a series of riddles. Not the good kind, the kind that have almost infinite answers with the answers they are looking for don't make sense unless you look at it through an incredibly limited spectrum and even then there's some obvious flaw that is overlooked because otherwise someone would get the riddle without fucking hearing it.

    Right?


    Actually, some of the puzzles are kind of creative, and use the flash tools in an interesting way.

    If you removed the ones that are a question and an answer where it's completely impossible to get right without trial-and-error, it would be pretty good. Of course, you'd be missing like fifteen to twenty questions.
    Well, fuck those questions. Fuck them in the ear.

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  • MA17MA17 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Taramoor wrote: »
    If you removed the ones that are a question and an answer where it's completely impossible to get right without trial-and-error, it would be pretty good. Of course, you'd be missing like fifteen to twenty questions.
    I agree. I rather enjoyed the don't touch pink one, but he has to mire it down with a decent don't touch blue and a needless don't touch green. Then again, this is from a guy who can't keep his flash below 8mb because he HAS to have a bunch of songs playing. No idea of how to trim fat, this guy.

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  • SynonymousSynonymous Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Regarding question #11:
    it's "n" because it's what comes after "December" second in the question. The "2" in "2nd" comes after December first. The "d" in "2nd" comes after December third.

    Ha ha ha argh.

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  • MA17MA17 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I don't want to know the answer to 81, I just want to know if it exists.

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  • Substance6Substance6 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    It's an impossible quiz. I'm almost positive the person who created the thing relishes in the frustration people have with it. It's a test to see if you'll give up, call it stupid, or guess and check your way through. It's fun to do with a group of people.

    My favorite questions involve using the fact that it's a flash game in ingenious ways. For example, right click to create a bridge so you don't touch the colour. That one gave me a smirk.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I got to 56, and stopped. I used all my skips to get that far, got to one I couldn't skip where the mouse disappeared and you had to recall a color sequence from earlier. There were also numbers, so I'm sure that is coming as well.

    Learning about memory retention in my psych class, I know this game fucks with and ignores it.

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  • MA17MA17 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Good lord, apparently some of the questions require you to WATCH HIS OTHER FLASH VIDEOS.

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  • mausmalonemausmalone Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Man, this would be so much better if I was British, then some of the language would at least make sense.

    For example... there's no way anybody in the US would call a polo shirt "a polo"

    At least this is far from "impossible" like my roommate was saying. This is nothing compared to notpron.

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  • SceptreSceptre Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    mausmalone wrote: »
    Man, this would be so much better if I was British, then some of the language would at least make sense.

    For example... there's no way anybody in the US would call a polo shirt "a polo"

    At least this is far from "impossible" like my roommate was saying. This is nothing compared to notpron.

    No, but at least in notpron, even the hardest puzzles made SOME sort of sense. This just has guess questions, for which there is no way to know the answer except guess.

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  • RocketScienceRocketScience Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    A POLO

    There are holes in the A, the P and both O's

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  • mausmalonemausmalone Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Sceptre wrote: »
    mausmalone wrote: »
    Man, this would be so much better if I was British, then some of the language would at least make sense.

    For example... there's no way anybody in the US would call a polo shirt "a polo"

    At least this is far from "impossible" like my roommate was saying. This is nothing compared to notpron.

    No, but at least in notpron, even the hardest puzzles made SOME sort of sense. This just has guess questions, for which there is no way to know the answer except guess.

    well, that's the thing... all the answers (aside from the batshit crazy ones like where you have to click an exclamation point) make sense. The problem is that sometimes there's two that make sense, and neither of them count because you're not supposed to click on any of them anyhow.

    Basically, you're playing a game with rules, but you're not allowed to know the rules unless you break one.

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  • Recoil42Recoil42 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    mausmalone wrote: »
    Man, this would be so much better if I was British, then some of the language would at least make sense.

    For example... there's no way anybody in the US would call a polo shirt "a polo"

    At least this is far from "impossible" like my roommate was saying. This is nothing compared to notpron.

    Question one isn't talking about a polo shirt.


    A regular polo shirt doesn't have 4 holes. Go look in your closet, or just do a quick google search:

    POLO-SHIRT.gif

    polo_shirt.jpg

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_shirt
    ...(typically) two or three buttons down a slit below the collar...


    The question was a play on words. What it was really asking was:

    How many holes are there in "a polo"

    To which the answer is:

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Generic spoiler:
    Don't use any skips.

    72:
    On the left in the middle there's a little clickable thing. It doesn't highlight but the mouse changes.

    73:
    Top row on the right... obnoxious.

    74:
    No one knows that

    75:
    A small escape sign appears to the upper left of the bomb right before it explodes. I assume that's it. I wasn't quick enough but I'm done for tonight. I have an exam tomorrow.

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  • TaximesTaximes Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Recoil42 wrote: »
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    Or...

    Neck Hole, Arm Hole, Arm Hole, Waist Hole

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  • ÆthelredÆthelred Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ProdPolo01.jpg

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Taximes wrote: »
    Recoil42 wrote: »
    untitledgq2.gif

    Or...

    Neck Hole, Arm Hole, Arm Hole, Waist Hole
    You're forgetting that nearly all polo shirts have buttons and buttons require holes. Would work for a t-shirt though I suppose.

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ZackSchilling wrote: »
    Generic spoiler:
    Don't use any skips.

    72:
    On the left in the middle there's a little clickable thing. It doesn't highlight but the mouse changes.

    73:
    Top row on the right... obnoxious.

    74:
    No one knows that

    75:
    A small escape sign appears to the upper left of the bomb right before it explodes. I assume that's it. I wasn't quick enough but I'm done for tonight. I have an exam tomorrow.

    Number 73 makes sense because the one in the box looks the same as the one in the question. The other three are different.

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  • natxcrossnatxcross Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    People getting hooked on this makes me weep for the future of our species.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    natxcross wrote: »
    People getting hooked on this makes me weep for the future of our species.

    It's our desire to excel in seemingly meaningless fields that got us where we are today. At least, I hope so (as I'm doing a Humanities degree).

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Rhesus Positive wrote: »
    natxcross wrote: »
    People getting hooked on this makes me weep for the future of our species.

    It's our desire to excel in seemingly meaningless fields that got us where we are today. At least, I hope so (as I'm doing a Humanities degree).



    It's more the fact that I'm not going to let the stupid son of a bitch who designed this thing beat me.

    I'm up to question 91.

    Question91.jpg

    Anyone have any ideas?

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  • ÆthelredÆthelred Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Something to do with the crossed-out word?

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Æthelred wrote: »
    Something to do with the crossed-out word?


    Nothing so sensible as that.

    You have to tear the note.

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  • CZroeCZroe Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    It's full of English idioms. It wasn't intil I saw "Colour" that I reali"s"ed (HAW!) that "Torch" means flashlight. Bah!

    I got hung up on the vertical color bars. :(

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  • Squirminator2kSquirminator2k they/them North Hollywood, CARegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Ha! A friend of mine actually made this. He had it up on DeviantArt as well but they took it down because of the music.

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  • KouKou Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    It's alright, if you like random 4chan references thrown in and some what shoddy questions.

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