Unwinnable by Mistake/Web Original


 * This is what happens in the Bad Future of Homestuck.
 * The whole  could be considered this too, at least as far as winning it normally is concerned, because   This is compounded by the fact that  . The characters involved realise something went wrong and are trying to figure out how to salvage the situation.
 * Homestuck's Sburb is confusing in this regard. Because it surpasses universes, the kids' session wasn't unwinnable, technically, any more than Final Fantasy 6 is unwinnable because the World of Balance got destroyed. The game accounted for their apparent "errors" and they are no proceeding to their equivalent of World of Ruin.
 * In the Game Within A Show from Scooby Doo And The Cyber Chase, the gang is trapped in a video game, where they must find and pick up a hidden box of Scooby Snacks on each level to advance to the next. In the dinosaur-jungle level, Scooby is picked up by the trapped baby pterosaur he just rescued, and grabs up the box of Snacks an instant before it flies away with him, preventing the box from being destroyed by molten lava. As a player of the actual game might not spot the box in time, this looks like an Unwinnable By Mistake that would need fixing. Justified, as it's evidently a Beta-test version that they're caught in.
 * This CAPTCHA, and others, apparently. Fortunately, it's only actually testing one word, the other being from a large-scale project of using the whole show as an OCR (normally, it's not this obvious). One can bypass a non-typeable word by simply writing "fff" (or, depending on your vocabulary and maturity level, the filthiest, dirtiest profanity you can imagine) in its place.

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