I'm Not a Robot ★★★☆☆

Neal has once again swallowed my morning with one of his little games. Cute little thing, made me smile and curse in equal measure. Much like real CAPTCHAs often do a bunch of these minigames push you to actually behave more robotically to prove you are actually a human. The easiest way to solve the chess game is of course to load up the best chess bot you have access to and play as black against it, copying the moves from one game into another and for the maths puzzle I did first try to make order of magnitude estimations for each number, assuming that they would be pretty wildly variant, only to realise that the numbers were much, much closer together in value than I initially anticipated and just using Wolfram Alpha to solve them instead. I also looked up a guide on how to solve sliding block puzzles because I hate them.

The final boss rhythm game was a bastard, too. I had great trouble mentally mapping ⏶⏷⏴⏵ onto the actual physical layout of my arrow keys ␤. I was tempted to start trying to figure out how to temporarily remap four adjacent keys on my keyboard to get through it. Moving to using up and down on the arrow keys with my left hand and left and right on the numpad with my right hand did help and I eventually got it.