“A wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that can not be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem. The use of the term “wicked” here has come to denote resistance to resolution, rather than evil. Another definition is “a problem whose social complexity means that it has no determinable stopping point”. Moreover, because of complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect of a wicked problem may reveal or create other problems.”

-Wikipedia, Wicked Problems

To us, a wicked problem is one that has no correct answer due to the countless variables that are involved. In solving one wicked problem, five more spring up in its place. For example, you supply resources to a resource poor location, solving their resource problems. However, by applying this solution, you have now have a problem with being motivated to build infrastructure and the problem occurs again.