Silly Fun and Frustration in the Impossible Quiz

Although it’s a little zany, the whacky questions and silly sound effects make it a fun and somewhat addicting game. With over 60,000 positive votes on Addicting Games, and 100,000 downloads of the app version, there’s no harm in trying to win. If you do fail a question, which you’re bound to do, every player gets three freebies. There are also timed questions, or bombs, which range from 10 to 1 second.
 
Perks
 
If by some miracle you manage to get a certain number of questions right and navigate to these guys, you will be rewarded for you knowledge with a Skip, which of course, lets you dodge over at least one impossible question and saves you lives. It’s possible to earn 7 skips, which might be just enough to make it to the end of the quiz.
 
Music
 
The game strives for epic, as the music changes to the Rocky Balboa theme song full of trumpets and excitement when you begin, however, get a question wrong and the sound of lightning striking will cut down your confidence. 
 
Quiz
 
Even when you get a question wrong, you don’t simply move on to the next, you actually have to get it right to move on, which can quickly eat up your three meager lives. If you do die, a horror inspired scream sounds behind the triumphant music, making the player feel like the failure they are as a big red Game Over sign appears and the temptation to try again to prove their worth. 
 
In question four, players are simply asked to click the answer, all of which are listed as “out of order,” which is where luck comes in. Hint, it’s none of them. You have to actually click on the part of the question that says “The Answer.” Questions are creative and doodle based. One asks the player what the square root of an onion is. Could it be a shallot? 
 
Of course, the quiz is also very educational. I bet you didn’t know the secret to killing werewolves was shoe polish or that shampoo is actually made of babycham and human faeces.
 
Strategy?
Once you make it to question 10, which will probably take multiple replays, you get your first skip. But it isn’t much help in the long run. The Impossible Quiz is truly impossible on the first try. There are 110 questions, and it turns out it’s mostly a matter of memory after failed attempts. Actually, skips really aren’t a strategy, but rather a trick. You need all of them at the end to beat the game.
Once you reach the end after countless tries, you’ll feel like a champ. However, if you don’t have enough patients and just want to see the silly questions and answers without putting in all the effort, or simply cannot figure out where to click to continue, you can find all the answers online. Cheater.
 
Value
 
The Impossible Quiz could be a worthwhile time waster if you don’t cheat by looking up the answers. It’s frustrating to try to guess answers that don’t seem to have a right answer, but many of them are also puzzles, like when a bunch of letters appear, and a horse appears on top saying “neigh.” You might think you just have to choose one of the letters of the alphabet to continue, but really, you have to spell out the word horse. Although some are just nonsense, others have a strange logic to them. When asked a simple subtraction question to which the answer is 17, none of the answers listed are 17, but the question number is… 17.
 
 
 
 
 

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 Instead of clicking on the actual answers, sometimes the real answer is hidden within the screen somewhere unexpected, which is the best part about the game.  Impossible Quiz probably isn’t something you’ll want to play for hours, but the challenge the name implies does make players want to win. Although you might waste hours trying to beat it in one day, it’s more likely you’ll be tempted to come back and finish the impossible in your spare time.