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The Impossible Quiz

Just five questions. Easy, right? Wrong, cowboy. Go ahead and Google anything you like. You cannot find these answers on the Internet. You may want to try to solve them without the timer. If you can get more than one answer, you've done a great job. Oh, and the answers won't be given to you. You have to solve these to get them. Oh, and there are six possible questions, with five selected randomly. Everything here has been designed to be maximum difficulty!
You might need a pen and paper for basic calculation, but I made these without a calculator.
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Dimby
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Last updated: November 25, 2022
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First submittedNovember 24, 2022
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Cipher Code: A single sheet of paper sat, with only one line typed out, on my pawpaw's old typewriter. Old William must have left another one of his famous puzzles. The message was more than a little byzantine. "You dqh yqf3 5y8w 2446fu4r ;ittlw rtoqeriter/ ;ove, Pawpaw." Knowing old grandpa William, it was probably some sort of cipher code. I deduced the code, appreciating old William's message. What was the secret message?
সঠিক
Password: My late great grandfather, William Notburgh, left behind a World of Warcraft account with the username "GGrandpa". Liking a good mystery, he left behind one puzzling clue to help us log into his account. A Manila envelope labelled "Full Username" sat on the keyboard. A slip of paper inside read "the big red will run amok". What is the password?
درست
Squid: I had a dream about an azure sedecapodal squid named Billy. He had luxuriant eyebrows and a lugubrious tone. I was initially perplexed, but soon understood the pelagic creature to be giving me a math problem. It spoke:
A + B + C = 21
3A - 2C + 2 = 10
40 - 2A + B = 21
2B + C = 37
What is A x B?
ਸਹੀ
Apples: I came across several bags of apples of varying size and a large machine labelled "Apple Converter". I threw a bag of one dozen apples into the machine, and a bag of six apples came out. I threw that bag of six back in, and three came out. I put that bag back in... and five apples came out! Curious! I experimented with more apples. My results are below.
12 -> 6 -> 3 -> 5 -> 4
17 -> 9 -> 4
126 -> 19 -> 8 -> 5
I. How many apples came out when I gathered all the apples around and put in 2,467 apples?
II. How many apples came out when I put in an empty bag (write out both answers consecutively please).
उचितं
Fish home: Ten other quiz enthusiasts and I were guests at Jeppy's house the other day. He had a shelf with seventeen medals for his successes in quiz-related endeavours. He had set out various food items for us, quite the assortment in fact. There must have been eleven grapes, three radishes (or four depending on what you count as a radish), and even a big ol' yam. As we politely shared the meal, I counted how many turnips there were, and multiplied that number by the number of seashells that adorned Jeppy's walls. What number did I get?
නිවැරදි
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51 Comments
Dollyfroggy
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Level 63
Nov 25, 2022
Interesting, not at all what I expected!

I got the Apples!

The City I got as Fez (yes, I actually calculated it), but it didn't work. I assume it's either by area (couldn't find a comprehensive enough list) or some other interpretation I missed. You might want to modify where you say Grandpa William was 'at it again', since this was my first problem from randomization.

For the Squid, I figured out A, B, and C can't be regular variables, so I tried interpreting them as digits, but no luck.

For the Password, I (probably) found something important, but was unable to solve it fully.

For Fish home, I tried inspecting first letters and looked at badges, but was stumped.

For the Cipher, I didn't have time to look at it very much, but I have a feeling it's something to do with the spot of the letters in the message.

Thanks for the great puzzles!

Dimby
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Level 83
Nov 25, 2022
Thanks for all the feedback! Good job on the apples. :)

It’s not land area. You got a big city… but it’s not actually in alphabetical order. F comes after E, but it’s a common mistake from when I’ve used this stumper with students.

Thanks for being the first to attempt it. As always, I appreciate the feedback. :)

Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Nov 25, 2022
Oh, dang it! I actually automated all of the 1M cities to check, but the checker I used doesn't interpret capital letters right, so I checked the remaining manually.

Time to try to find a list of all of smaller cities...

Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Dec 4, 2022
I finally have figured out the City one! The unfortunate part is that I actually knew the city...

I still have no clue about the Squid / Cipher. I realized the link above for Password is a user's profile, so that's probably irrelevant. The only thing that I noticed for the Fish home was that radishes contains dishes, but that seems useless. I'll come back to it later.

Dimby
+2
Level 83
Dec 4, 2022
If you ever want a hint, feel free to ask. I’m sure you’re the only one who’ll ever write this quiz! :)
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Dec 5, 2022
Thanks, but I'll keep trying. I will get at least 4 eventually! Probably the Fish home and Password will be the lucky ones...
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
May 4, 2023
I can't get any of the others, but I came up with my own. I don't know what to call it, though, since I already have a "The Impossible Quiz". Is this okay and if so, do you have any name suggestions?
Dimby
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Level 83
May 4, 2023
Yeah, go for it. Maybe something about it being extreme riddles if they’re riddle-type questions.
Dollyfroggy
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Level 63
Oct 6, 2023
Finally made it. Thanks!
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Feb 3, 2024
I came back to these to give them another shot. Does the World of Warcraft question use knowledge specific to World of Warcraft?
Dimby
+3
Level 83
Feb 3, 2024
No, it could be any computer game, really.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Feb 9, 2024
I got fish home. 3 done, 3 left.
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Feb 9, 2024
Nicely done!
beanman51
+1
Level 33
Feb 21, 2023
nerd
ItzIngenious
+2
Level 66
May 8, 2023
For the jeppy one, the only possible lead I noticed was that turnips and radishes are both root vegetables. Then I thought that the “depending on what you count as a radish”, might be hinting that there is one turnip, but alas, the answer was not 17. Am I at least on to something?
Dimby
+2
Level 83
May 8, 2023
That is very interesting. But no, that isn't related to my answer. :)
Neodymium
+3
Level 63
May 20, 2023
Only people in math problems have so many apples
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Jul 6, 2023
Sidenote: What happened to the hotel quiz? I can't find it.
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Jul 6, 2023
Ah, it’s “Welcome to the Quiz Motel”. It’s not fancy enough to be a hotel.
25lpconrod
+3
Level 37
Feb 19, 2025
Because there is no mint on the pillow
Sofie78
+1
Level 44
Sep 20, 2023
For the squid one, could the letters also be negative numbers?
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Sep 20, 2023
They’re not negative. :)
Sofie78
+1
Level 44
Sep 20, 2023
Okay thanks I'm gonna try to solve it :)
ritK
+1
Level 56
Sep 20, 2023
I got 4 right but i got 1 wrong even though I copy and pasted all the answers
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Oct 6, 2023
You probably had the 5th being from a different question. There are 6 questions.
Sofie78
+2
Level 44
Sep 21, 2023
Is the squid one possible? Because I've tried very much but I just can't get the answer. Can you maybe give me a hint or something?
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Sep 21, 2023
It isn’t as much about algebra as you might think.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Oct 6, 2023
You might want to change the type-ins so the characters themselves aren't accepted.
Sofie78
+2
Level 44
Jul 1, 2024
After alsmost a year I found this quiz again! I think I've firgured out the cipher code, but I just can't figure out the '2446fu4r'... Can you maybe give me a hint?
Sofie78
+2
Level 44
Jul 1, 2024
Oh nevermind! I just solved it!!
Dimby
+1
Level 83
Jul 1, 2024
Nicely done! That one is very tricky 😄
Fianchetto
+1
Level 78
Dec 2, 2024
I finally got one! The city is probably the easiest one, but I went to this

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/149667/all-cities-starting-with-a-with-map

and went through the answers in alphabetical order, didn't take as long as I thought.

Dimby
+1
Level 83
Dec 2, 2024
Nice! Imagine if it didn’t start with that letter 😂
Fianchetto
+1
Level 78
Dec 2, 2024
For the Squid the letters don't stand for numbers, do they? I solved for them algebraically by setting A+B+C equal to 40 - 2A+B but the answer from that isn't right.

I'm genuinely stumped on most of them, I'm guessing the Cipher Code has something to do with the placement of Letters/numbers on the keyboard

Dimby
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Level 83
Dec 2, 2024
It's not algebraic. You're one the right track on the Cipher Code. :)
Gademotsili99
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Level 61
Dec 17, 2024
Hey Dimby, I made a quiz "Be angry" which I have collabed.you to see, since it is inspired by your series. If you want to make something similar yourself, tell me, so that I never submit it, or you can even borrow as many answers as you want. Don't worry about the time I spent, as it was like 5 mins

Oh and I just saw, Be Sad got front page so congrats on that and on 1mil! Expecting a milestone blog?

So yeah, as to not steal your rightful idea, I'll let you decide

Gademotsili99
+2
Level 61
Dec 17, 2024
Oh and also, now I just realized why this quiz is your least played. Not because it wasn't popular, but because noone could get answers
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Dec 17, 2024
I had no plans for be angry. All yours. :)

Thanks! I haven’t planned a milestone blog, but I do have a blog I’ll release at the end of the year. I might mention 1 mil, but I’m not too into self aggrandizement.

Gademotsili99
+2
Level 61
Dec 17, 2024
Ok thanks a lot Dimby! Looking forward to your blog!
Ravisseur
+1
Level 59
Jan 8, 2025
I'm surprised by the amount of comments on your less taken quiz lol, that shows how I'm not the only one to communicate by this way.

Anyway I saw that your jigsaw quiz on Tiger's account for christmas has been removed, is there any reason for that?

Dimby
+3
Level 83
Jan 8, 2025
I think it’s primarily that he didn’t want his most taken quiz to be one he didn’t make
Ravisseur
+1
Level 59
Jan 11, 2025
Oh, so it's not your decision. That's kinda sad, it was an unique quiz on the website
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Jan 11, 2025
He’s ok with me posting it again. I have big plans about releasing a whole bunch of quizzes in quick succession, which is why I’m not posting it right away. Let’s just say we will see much more of the jigsaw format soon.
Gademotsili99
+1
Level 61
Jan 16, 2025
Excited to see!

Anyway, I am here for another reason... Dimby I have a proposal for you. Do you have any quizzes that you want translated to Greek?

If yes Collab me on a copy!

Unfortunately though, quizzes like be happy and be sad aren't possible due to lingual differences.

Same with most SVG's that contain text, unless it is like a single word.

Ohhh I just realised you made click chain! I definitely want that!

Gademotsili99
+1
Level 61
Jan 16, 2025
Done both! You are ready to submit!
Gademotsili99
+1
Level 61
Jan 20, 2025
Finished the art one as well
sacheth9
+1
Level 65
Feb 19, 2025
hi - you can use the coordinates/map from my 500 Biggest Cities quiz. here's a link to the spreadsheet I made for that quiz, which contains all the coordinates
leontodon
+1
Level 75
Jan 3, 2026
This sure is hard!

I've got the last two questions: the squid was easy (but then, I'm a programmer) and the apples are straightforward.

I'm close to getting the cipher: I understand the idea, but one of the words stumps me.

The city one confuses me. There don't seem to be any very large (by agglomeration or urban area population) cities whose letters are in alphabetical order. After trying, I consulted this list of the biggest cities https://citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/ and the only match is Jos (Nigeria, pop 1.1 million), but that's not the answer.

No clue whatsoever on the password.

leontodon
+1
Level 75
Jan 3, 2026
Oh I just got the cipher! I was confused by that last "q": shouldn't it be, say, an "f"?
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Jan 3, 2026
I just re-typed it out with the cipher and I got q there. If you've got 3 of these, I think you've done better than anyone ever has!
Dimby
+2
Level 83
Jan 3, 2026
Oh, and Jos is a VERY close second.
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