I took a class that gave mindfuck questions and did not need curved grading. It was simple. The weekly assignments contained 6 questions. One of those was the

I took a class that gave mindfuck questions and did not need curved grading. It was simple. The weekly assignments contained 6 questions. One of those was the mindfuck question and wasn’t graded (if you solved it you got extra credit, but hadn’t been solved so far). You don’t even need to hide the crazy questions. Offering them as extra credit is a simple solution that works well.