"I'm Not a Robot is a fun spin on the popular CAPTCHA game synonymous with using the internet. Except it's not just one game, but 48 increasingly absurd puzzles designed to help you prove you have a soul-and the patience to parallel park a Waymo using your arrow keys. The game begins as you'd expect. Level 1 asks you to check a box to prove you're not a robot. Level 3 prompts you to decipher text wiggling on the screen."
"But the more you progress, the whackier it all becomes. Level 11 asks you to find Waldo on a crowded beach. Level 17 wants you to use your mouse to draw a circle that is 94% accurate (it's not as easy as it sounds.) Level 25 lets you play day trader at the stock market, and you must make a minimum of $2,500 by buying and selling stock based on a chart that dips and spikes live on your screen."
I'm Not a Robot transforms CAPTCHA mechanics into 48 escalating puzzle levels with varied tasks from checkbox verification and distorted text to finding Waldo, drawing near-perfect circles, and simulated stock trading. The game launched in September and has been played by more than 2.5 million people. Designer Neal Agarwal estimates completion would take about two hours and believes fewer than 1% of players have finished all levels. CAPTCHA originated in the late 1990s to prevent automated bots, with early use by AltaVista and later adoption and evolution by Google as reCAPTCHA.
Read at Fast Company
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