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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.
Quiz by Dimby
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Last updated: November 25, 2022
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First submittedNovember 24, 2022
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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
City: Old G. Grandpa William’s legacy was puzzlin’. He was always making puzzles. Even his inheritance was a puzzle. He had converted his assets to bitcoin and locked it with a password. His will stated that the password was the answer to a geography question. What is the largest city in the world whose letters are in alphabetical order?
صحيح
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
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?
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Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
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 77
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
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Level 60
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
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Level 60
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
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Level 77
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
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Level 60
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 60
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 77
May 4, 2023
Yeah, go for it. Maybe something about it being extreme riddles if they’re riddle-type questions.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Oct 6, 2023
Finally made it. Thanks!
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
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
+2
Level 77
Feb 3, 2024
No, it could be any computer game, really.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 60
Feb 9, 2024
I got fish home. 3 done, 3 left.
Dimby
+2
Level 77
Feb 9, 2024
Nicely done!
beanman51
+1
Level 31
Feb 21, 2023
nerd
ItzIngenious
+2
Level 60
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 77
May 8, 2023
That is very interesting. But no, that isn't related to my answer. :)
Neodymium
+2
Level 59
May 20, 2023
Only people in math problems have so many apples
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Jul 6, 2023
Sidenote: What happened to the hotel quiz? I can't find it.
Dimby
+2
Level 77
Jul 6, 2023
Ah, it’s “Welcome to the Quiz Motel”. It’s not fancy enough to be a hotel.
Sofie78
+1
Level 44
Sep 20, 2023
For the squid one, could the letters also be negative numbers?
Dimby
+2
Level 77
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 38
Sep 20, 2023
I got 4 right but i got 1 wrong even though I copy and pasted all the answers
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
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 77
Sep 21, 2023
It isn’t as much about algebra as you might think.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Oct 6, 2023
You might want to change the type-ins so the characters themselves aren't accepted.
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