Movie Information

• This movie was made with the --no-gui argument.
• MD5 Hash: f56702cf036cdf306606e2e94d0faf40
• You can download the game here: https://archive.org/details/the-impossible-quiz-2_202406
• Content warning: This movie contains flashing lights, gore, a depiction of suicide and a dead animal corpse.

About this game and movie

Mechanics

Skips

When you get a Skip, you can skip any question you want, but only once, knowing what questions to skip is an important part of this run.

Ghost Items

If you obtain a Skip (or a Fusestopper) and complete two questions before they go to the corner, you will not obtain the item, which means you have to wait on some occasions.

Interesting Questions

Question 4

Unlike its predecessor, this game has RNG elements to it, many of which can make the run faster or slower, and this is the first question like that. I manipulate the system time to get the word "Arse" which is faster than every other possible word by at least 2 frames.

Question 9

This question houses the first Skip of the run. Fortunately, it doesn't waste anytime to collect it. However, I can't collect it too late or else I'll suffer the Ghost Item glitch, erasing the Skip.

Question 12

This is the first maze question of the game, which is a common theme for this game. The maze questions work off a "checkpoint" system, what I mean by that is that there are points you have to pass in order to grab the key, if you don't pass these points, touching the key will make you lose a life and it will reset the question, this was probably implemented to prevent cheating. For this question, you have to pass through the bifurcation to successfully get the key.

Question 17

This is the second question that has RNG elements. In this case, I only got two variants across the RNG manipulation I did for other questions, and I ended up getting the variant that was faster between the two, on accident technically.

Question 29

There is a green bomb that gives you a skip when it explodes. It may have looked like I had to wait more time that I should, but if you remember the Ghost Items glitch, it makes sense.

Question 38

In this question, you have to press any key on your computer 85 times, meaning I press 16 keys (libTAS's input limit per frame) every frame. Increasing or outright removing this limit would make this question faster.

Question 39

This is another maze question, and in this case, the checkpoint is an area next to the vanish bottle. The "issue" I mentioned in my Impossible Quiz Book TAS is that when you collect the vanish bottle, libTAS will crash, which made me believe that it was impossible, but I discovered that you didn't need to collect the bottle in order to progress, but I still collect it anyways >:)

Question 49

This is the third question with RNG elements. In this case, I get the "43?9Enter" variant, which is significantly faster than every other variant, mostly because it doesn't involve pressing too many keys or waiting.

Question 50

This is the first question that is skipped, this is because the question is very long, containing two minigames with cutscenes in between, so it makes sense to skip it. If you're wondering, the question looks like this

Question 52

This is a rubbing question. Rubbing questions are very hard to TAS and I'm pretty sure that way I rubbed wasn't 100% the fastest way, but that's hard to test.

Question 60

In this question, you have to drag Longcat down until her face is on screen. Since there is no mouse limit, I can immediately complete the task by moving the mouse about 4000 units down.

Question 63

This question contains the 3rd Skip of the game, in order to get it, you must simply press "q". It doesn't waste any time to collect it.

Question 66

In this question, I obtain a Fusestopper (without losing time), and as you can see, it disappears after I complete question 68, this is an example of the Ghost Items glitch.

Question 67

This is the third maze question, and also perhaps the most infamous question in the game. There are many possible checkpoint paths, but the fastest one I found was going to the green button, then going to the visibility pocket before the key.

Question 70

This is the final RNG question that I manipulated. Chris (the cat) will be punched a random amount of times between 3 and 14, and you then have to memorize how many times he was punched in order to successfully answer question 75. I obviously try to go for only 3 punches, which is way faster than getting more punches.

Question 87

In this question, an arrow pointing to the correct egg to click will appear randomly with other carrots that only serve as a distraction, and you have to react to it and click the correct egg. You can actually click the correct egg before the arrow appears, but only after a specific point for some reason.

Question 88

This question involves waiting 15 seconds, that why it's skipped.

Question 91

This is technically the final RNG question, the time it takes for the reticle to appear is random. I didn't manipulate it using the system time, unlike every RNG other question, I instead manipulated it by shooting Amy prematurely. Even though I lost a life, I also got the reticle to appear about 50 frames earlier.

Question 99

This question is a minigame where you have to pop 99 red balloons in order to progress. Since it takes a pretty long time for the 99 balloons to appear, this is the final question to be skipped, which takes a life away for some reason. If you're wondering, the question looks like this

Question 104

This is another rubbing question, and just like question 52, I also think this question can be improved, specially because all of the windows took different amount of time to clear, one only took 28 frames, the most common time to take was 38 frames, and one took a whopping 48 frame to clear, which is two seconds with 24fps.

Question 108

This is the final maze question, but unlike every other maze question, this one doesn't have a checkpoint system to prevent cheating, meaning you can just teleport your mouse to the end immediately.

Question 112

In this question you have to move inside the can opener, then outside, which is why you can see the mute and quality buttons being highlighted

Possible improvements

Unused trick

Suggested screenshot