unwinnable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ winnable.

Adjective

unwinnable (not comparable)

1. Unable to be won.

   Synonym: (video games) walking dead (Adjective)

   • 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88:

     The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.

Translations

unable to be won

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一場無法取勝／一场无法取胜 (yīchǎng wúfǎ qǔshèng)

• Danish: umulig at vinde
• Finnish: voittamaton (fi)
• German: nicht zu gewinnen (predicative), nicht zu gewinnend (attributive)
• Hungarian: megnyerhetetlen
• Italian: impossibile da vincere
• Japanese: 得られない (erarenai)
• Russian: заведомо проигрышную (zavedomo proigryšnuju)
• Spanish: inganable
• Turkish: kazanması imkânsız