• he/they

Photographer, crafter, serial and parallel hobbyist, general enthusiast. The views and opinions expressed here are barely even mine, let alone anyone else's. Living on the unceded land of the Duwamish people. He/they


New contestant for worst captcha of all time. The task is to find a set of 5 d6 that adds up to the target sum by scrolling through 12 photos of rolls (and as anyone who's ever played a wizard in D&D knows, nothing is more fun that adding up handsful of d6s over and over again). But that's not all - once you find your sum, you get to do the same thing FIVE MORE TIMES before it lets you log in!

Assuming the correct answer appears once at a randomly place in the list (seems likely from my experience going through this twice because the login script messed up the first time) you're theoretically summing 5 digits an average of 39 times (in practice it's a few less since for extreme sums you can quickly rule out some at a glance — e.g. if the sum is 14 or less and you see two 6s you can just click next — but still time consuming). I'm pretty quick at mental arithmetic and this was annoying as heck to me, can't imagine how bad it'd be if you weren't.

The best part is the target sums and the dice faces aren't even particularly OCR-proofed, making this a task that is almost certainly EASIER for a computer to solve than a human!


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