What are the strangest captchas you have seen?

[dmmj]

I post sometimes on forums and newspaper sites that show captchas to post and I have seen some strange ones, but the strangest I think I have ever seen was one with chinese symbols in it. Last time I checked my keyboard does not make those symbols, and of course some are insanely hard to read, thank goodness for the refresh button.

 

[Yvonne G]

I'm afraid you're talking over my head, David.

 

[Tom]

Do you mean captions?

 

[Yvonne G]

Had to do a Wiki search:

A CAPTCHA or Captcha (pronounced /ˈkæptʃə/) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are supposedly unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. Thus, it is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test, because it is administered by a machine and targeted to a human, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is typically administered by a human and targeted to a machine. A common type of CAPTCHA requires the user to type letters or digits from a distorted image that appears on the screen.

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LOL on the chinese symbols. So how did you get by that one? Did you have to open a new window and do a chinese translation? Copy/paste?

 

[Tom]

Oh that's that annoying cra* they started doing on tinypic.com. I hate it. Half the time I can't even read it.

 

[abra]

My favorite

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

I never knew what that was called!! I hate it and often get it wrong because of the weird way the letters look.

 

[Cfr200]

I am color blind and a lot of times cannot read the letters, I know they can come up with a better way. I like the ones that asks stupid questions better, like what is the number after 4.