Well, that's more evil than my lab. A more direct equivalent in the CS would be an algorithm description in the booklet with one subtly wrong (e.g. proven using some well-hidden circular reasoning) and uncorrectable step. The expectation would be that a good student finds the mistake instead of submitting the implementation of the flawed algorithm, or, for even better matching with my case, proves that the supposed output cannot be obtained from the inputs at all.