# What was this captcha? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279 "2020-01-11T19:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/1 "2020-01-11T19:52:37Z")
All that I know is that it wasn’t VH4. I wish I had pushed the audio button. [https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200111/88513b8d85a750072a4f836434ef9717.jpg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200111/88513b8d85a750072a4f836434ef9717.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/2 "2020-01-11T19:56:41Z")
No way to know for sure, but I would have gone for v114. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/3 "2020-01-11T20:06:48Z")
Oh my, that is a hard one. Maybe VXHX? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/4 "2020-01-11T20:29:18Z")
Bad one. Lots of possibilities. V f H x perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/5 "2020-01-11T21:08:57Z")
Maybe vH4? I would just hit the new button and hope for a better one. That one’s hopeless. Anyone know if those things are designed by humans or generated automatically? I suspect that they’re machine generated. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/6 "2020-01-11T21:30:00Z")
I don’t have a clue on the OP’s captcha. I’ve been using a website that requires a captcha with every log-in, and yesterday there were instructions that the answers would be case sensitive. Okay… except that two of the included letters had similar shapes for CAPS and lower case. It was something like G 7 x 9 w There are only eight or nine letters where the lower case character is easily confused with the upper case, but that captcha managed to hit on two of them. That’s some good shooting. I missed the right answer on that image, but the next one was easier. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/7 "2020-01-11T22:58:40Z")
The answer is New or Audio, even if you get it correct that one may just be recycled. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/8 "2020-01-11T23:00:47Z")
VXHX?a ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/9 "2020-01-11T23:21:04Z")
VXt4? Wow, that’s tough. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/10 "2020-01-11T23:55:55Z")
It could be V I I 4. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/11 "2020-01-12T03:02:08Z")
vft4 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/12 "2020-01-12T04:06:11Z")
It’s clearly YHVH and anyone who gets it right gets Superuser privileges. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/13 "2020-01-12T19:53:09Z")
To me the last char is clearly a “+”. It’s the 2nd one that’s gibberish. Maybe VfH+? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/14 "2020-01-12T21:26:11Z")
I think that’s a reverse captcha. Only a robot would even _try_ to solve that; any REAL human is going to look at that thing, say “WTF?!?” :dubious: and hit the “New Captcha” button so hard they sprain something. ---
**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/15 "2020-01-13T01:31:57Z")
Amazes me that ambiguous characters (1, i, l, j, 0, o, etc) still show up in CAPTCHAs. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279/16 "2020-01-13T01:51:56Z")
Hah. That’s just hilarious. I can’t even begin to think what that is going for. The last letter looks like a “+”, but I don’t think they usually go for symbols in Captchas, so I’d guess a rotated “x”. It could be a “4,” but I don’t think the left-most vertical of the 4 is a part of the last character. It feels like its connected to the character preceding. I might guess a really warped vXHx, but I’m also willing to bet that’s probably wrong. I wish you did press the audio button, so we would know what in the hell that was going for.