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I'm Not A Robot — a CAPTCHA game
Five movie tickets, ten rounds of verification, and a website convinced you're a bot.
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About I'm Not A Robot
I'm Not A Robot is a CAPTCHA game and a free comedy game built on the most universally hated thing on the internet: proving you are a human being to a website that has already made up its mind.
The setup is small and horribly familiar. Mom needs five movie tickets booked for tonight, the family group chat is getting restless, and checkout is guarded by SafePass™ — a verification system with a humanity percentage, an unshakeable belief that you are automated, and ten rounds of escalating CAPTCHAs to prove it.
They start where you expect: select all images with traffic lights. They do not stay there. Your humanity meter opens at 51% and moves in both directions — every round you pass adds four points, every one you fail takes away seven, so the arithmetic quietly favours the machine. Seven failures and SafePass™ certifies you as a robot, releases your tickets back to the public, and hands them to Susan's son, who will buy them in under two minutes.
It is short, funny and tap-and-type, with no score to grind and no skill ceiling to climb — built to be played properly once and then shown to somebody else.
How to survive all ten CAPTCHA rounds
- Open the EasyTickets app and get to checkout for five tickets before the family group chat boils over.
- Work through SafePass™ verification: ten rounds of CAPTCHAs, each stranger than the last.
- Read every instruction carefully — several rounds are testing whether you skimmed, and the obvious answer is often the trap.
- Watch the humanity meter. It starts at 51%, gains four points for each round you pass and loses seven for each one you fail.
- Keep your failures under seven. On the seventh, SafePass™ certifies you as a robot and the tickets are gone.
- Clear all ten rounds to actually get the tickets booked.
Controls
- Tap / click
- Select images, press buttons, answer prompts
- Keyboard
- Type answers when a round asks for them
- Drag
- Move things around when a CAPTCHA demands it
Tips for keeping your humanity above zero
- Read the instruction, not the pictures. The wording is where the joke and the trap both live, and skimming is exactly what the round is testing for.
- Slow down on the rounds that look easiest. Those are the ones with a twist buried in the phrasing.
- The maths is against you: passes are worth four points and failures cost seven, so protecting the meter early matters more than recovering it later.
- Seven failures is more room than it feels like. One wrong answer is not worth restarting for — keep going and claw the percentage back.
For anyone who has ever failed a CAPTCHA
The joke works because the frustration is universal. CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, and the reason the tests keep getting harder is that machines keep getting better at them — every puzzle a bot learns to solve has to be replaced with a stranger one.
So this game takes the escalation to its logical end. It starts with the traffic-light grid everyone has seen a thousand times and keeps going until SafePass™ is asking for things no verification system should reasonably want, while a humanity meter quietly does arithmetic that is not in your favour.
I'm Not A Robot questions, answered
How many mistakes can you make?
Seven. On the seventh failure SafePass™ certifies you as a robot, releases your tickets back to the public and ends the run. That is a fairly forgiving margin across ten rounds, so a single wrong answer is never worth restarting for.
What is the humanity meter?
The percentage SafePass™ believes you are human. It opens at 51%, gains four points for every round you pass and loses seven for every one you fail, with a floor of 2%. The arithmetic is deliberately stacked — protecting it early is easier than recovering it late.
How many rounds are there?
Ten, and they escalate. The first is the traffic-lights grid everyone has seen a thousand times; by the later rounds SafePass™ is asking for things no verification system should reasonably want. Clearing all ten is what actually books the tickets.
Which CAPTCHAs catch people out?
The ones that look easiest. Several rounds hide a twist in the wording rather than the images, so anybody who pattern-matches on the picture grid and clicks fast walks straight into a failure worth seven points of humanity.
How long does a full run take?
Roughly ten to fifteen minutes for all ten rounds. It is built as a story with an ending rather than an endless loop, so there is no score to grind — you play it properly once, find out whether the tickets get booked, and then show somebody else.
Why are CAPTCHAs so hard to solve now?
Because machines got good at them. Every CAPTCHA style that bots learn to beat has to be replaced by a harder one, so the tests have drifted from readable words to ambiguous image grids that humans also fail. That escalation is exactly what this game parodies.
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