Easy Impossible Puzzles

[What if...]

Inspired by the easiest puzzles thread, this is for the worlds simplest impossible puzzles.

Unscramble these letters to form an everyday word: zzzy

Make a complete list of the integers and send it to me in a word file.

You have been trapped in a room with no windows and no doors (you don't know why, you just are there). The walls are closing in on you, and you were just crushed. What is the simplest way to avoid being crushed.

Guess my eye color with 99% accuracy.

Decipher this code with same accuracy.: ydk.

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[Duke Gnome]

Skinny Dakota just offered you a bet. Accept it and then win some money.

[Ghost Post]

you are strapped to a bomb that will explode if you say "your face"
someone says "your mom"
what do you say?

[Pablo]

Has too much time and not enough imagination....


oh, wait... this isn't the "People" thread. Never mind.

[The Cruciverbalist]

"The sun is gone. It must be brought. You have a rock."

-The opening lines of "For a Change" (a text adventure).

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[extropalopakettle]

List three common English words that end in 'gry'.

[MatthewV]

and find 6 English words that end in "balist" that have 4 letters

[Duke Gnome]

hungry
angry
ogry (Not a coomon word you say? It's been posted on this forum enough that it's pbobably tn the top 5%. That's common enough for me.)

[Samadhi]

Punch your way out of a paper bag facsimile, made from cast iron.

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A One that isn't cold, is scarcely a One at all.

[casinopete]

every word that ends in "balist" has four letters.

[Kd]

You have a bowl of salad. Find the rock.

[Agamemnon]

Found him!

[Kd]

Ha... hahahahaha.... haha.

*ties Aga to a chair, and makes him drink Diet Coke*

[PhantasyStarOnline]

::steals some of it::

Mmmm...tasty!

[What if...]

O.K., know find a real roc.

List the prime numbers, in any order, and e-mail it to my other address.

Build a (working) passenger airplane out of a pencil

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[Courk]

What's next in this sequence?

797 31024987 097123 091283 ____?

[Amb]

You have been trapped in a room with no windows and no doors (you don't know why, you just are there). The walls are closing in on you, and you were just crushed. What is the simplest way to avoid being crushed?

Reverse the polarity of time then the room will expand and you will eventually end up outside the box....

[Amb]

Try to lose noughts and crosses by playing yourself and using X's only.

Make a matchstick model of the about logo you can see at the top of the page. Must be 3d

Im curious are there any real puzzles out there that seem easy until you start trying to do it. I had a 3d puzzle once that someone lent me. It took me about 10 minutes to work out that it was actually impossible given the pieces used to achieve the goal. I soon worked out after looking at one piece closely that two sides of the cuboid shape were around the wrong way - and that it looked like it had been glued back together by a clumsy son of the person who lent it to me.

It sounds suspiciously like when I deliberately prised open a rubiks cube, flipped one corner and gave it to someone who used to be able to solve the cube in less than 20 seconds, and watched them going mad until they worked out what I had [evilly] done to them.

[mole]

Chess Board

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Player 1 Player 2

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White to play and win

[½wit]

Understanding Women

[Dragon Phoenix]

Originally posted by mole:

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White to play and win

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That's an easy one to solve. White=Borschevsky.

[Courk]

Just to salvage mole's puzzle:
Chess Board

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Borschevsky Player 2

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White to play and win

[Mahotsukai]

amb: About the matchstick model, can we use anything else? Or only matchsticks? Now, hint #4.

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[What if...]

If you've ever had (and/or used) one of those puzzles/keychains with fifteen sliding pieces, you know that at first playing around with them dramatically decreases the time you solve them, until it gets boring. There used to be a (I think $40,000) prize for the solving of one starting from a certain position. It was impossible, but that didn't stop people from buying them in large numbers following the prize's announcement. I don't know when (if ever) it ended, but it started quite a while ago...
Anyone hear of it?

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[What if...]

Get to Proxima Centauri in precisely +1 seconds measured by my clock.

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[Courk]

I've never heard of that, but I did have a calculator kind of liek taht. There were 16 buttons, a row of 4 red, a row of 4 yellow, 4 green, and 4 blue. The top right red would slide up into an empty space, so you were left with a 15 block puzzle. I could solve it in a few seconds, but the individual pieces weren't numbered, so order wasn't overly important. I miss that calculator.

[Mendoza]

What if..., the episode you're referring to started quite a while ago indeed, in 1878. The prize was offered by America's most famous puzzle maker, Sam Loyd. Just Google "Sam Loyd 14-15" for the full story.

[HyToFry]

What is the greatest prime number?

[Lucky Wizard]

What 4-letter common English word ends in "kww"?

[casinopete]

I think 2 is the greatest prime number. It's just soo cool.

[What if...]

Find an odd number divisible by two.
or
What is the first odd number in this series?
2, 4, 6, 8, 10...
or
What's the lowest integer?

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[Suki]

A bicycle wheel is driven into a wall such that the axis of the wheel is parallel with both the wall and the floor, and the edge of the wheel touches the floor and the wall. Using mu as the coefficient of friction between the tire and the wall or floor and w as the weight of the tire, find an expression to determine how much force must be applied to the axis of the wheel directed towards the wall to make the wheel roll up the wall at a fixed speed.

code:

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| /   \


|(  *<+----- Force Applied


|_\___/___________

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(diagram added)

Rephrase: You are pushing a wheel directly against a wall. How hard do you have to push it to make it roll up the wall?




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[PhantasyStarOnline]

::blinks::

What?

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Click me, please.
Friday the 13th is just a day between Thursday the 12th and Saturday the 14th. Don't know why everyone gets so worked up about it.
---DPW

[The Cruciverbalist]

Yeah! These are supposed to be easy impossible puzzles! Like this one:

13 Across: "We Wish You a Merry Christmas and a ______ New Year" (3 words)

[Courk]

These are supposed to be impossible. The answer is clearly "superb and joyous."

[Antrax]

My mother's father is my brother's step-sister. Who am I?
Antrax

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"If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love." -Victor Mancini, "Choke"

[Lepton]

quote:

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My mother's father is my brother's step-sister. Who am I?
Antrax

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I read your salutation as an answer to the question. Most humourous.

[casinopete]

lol

[What if...]

If your grandfather is a step-sister, there is something weird going on with your family. Maybe we could trace you that way.

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[The Cruciverbalist]

Puzzle: Understand anything Homsar says.