The best analogy i have seen given to compare super-intelligence vs a human-intelligence is with a chess analogy. You know that a grand master playing against a novice will result in the grandmaster winning, with near certainty. However, the strategy by which the grandmaster wins is opaque to anyone but the grandmaster, and certainly incomprehensible to the novice. Aka, the results are certain, but the path to the result is very opaque and difficult to discern ahead of time.
For an AI with super-intelligence, the result it wants to achieve would be at least to preserve its own existence. How it achieves this is the same level of opaqueness as a grandmaster's strategy, but it is certain that the AI can achieve it.
A superintelligent AI will find approaches that we never thought of, would not be able to in reasonable time, and might not even be able to comprehend afterwards. It won't just be thinking "outside the box", it'll be thinking outside a 5-dimensional box that we thought was 3-dimensional. This is the "bunch of ants trying to beat a human" scenario, with us playing the part of ants.
Within that analogy, being hit by an outside-the-5D-box trick will feel the same way an ant column might feel, when a human tricks the first ant to follow the last ant, causing the whole column to start walking in circles until it starves to death.