Lifebuoy

Lifebuoys are a kind of Power-Up that have first appeared in The Impossible Quiz Book. It's the 2nd last Power-Up to be introduced in the series, and by far the one that has appeared the least.

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these only appeared in the demo so it is unknown if it will be in TIQ3 ch1 ch2 ch3 or just in chb

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Bearing the name of "S.S. Impossible Ringpiece" written on it, this Power-Up serves as a protection for your lives counter. Clicking on one after obtaining it will place it on top of your number of lives, and if you happen to get a question wrong, only the Lifebuoy will explode, leaving your number of lives intact.

This Power-Up was originally revealed in the "Instructions" section of Chapter 1, though it's first real appearance was in Chapter 2. It was also going to be used in Chapter 3 as well, but since Splapp thought it wasn't all that good (plus he had some problems trying to fix a glitch that involved it), it was removed from that Chapter, in favor of a Fusestopper.

The only obtainable Lifebuoy of the series is located in the beginning of the ZX Spectrum-inspired section of the game: you will be presented with a cassette player and the word LOAD. In order to obtain the Lifebuoy, you have to type "lifebuoy" next to "LOAD", and after pressing the "Play" button you will instantly receive the Power-Up; you must do this before trying to load the following ten questions.

There were two glitches related to this item of the game: one of them will make you start from the beginning of the Quiz having the Lifebuoy already after getting a Game Over. The other one has a slightly more negative effect: if you make the Lifebuoy protect your counter when you have only one life left, getting a question wrong will give you a Game Over anyway, instead of blowing the Lifebuoy up. Splapp has stated that the first of these two glitches is the reason why he dropped the Power-Up from Chapter 3, since he couldn't manage to fix it and deadlines were coming close.