unwinnable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ winnable

Adjective

unwinnable (not comparable)

Unable to be won.
- 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 (yīchǎng wúfǎ qǔshèng)
Danish: umulig at vinde
Finnish: voittamaton (fi)
German: nicht zu gewinnen (predicative), nicht zu gewinnend (attributive)

Hungarian: megnyerhetetlen
Japanese: 得られない (erarenai)
Russian: заведомо проигрышную (zavedomo proigryšnuju)
Spanish: inganable
Turkish: başarılamayacak

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