Captcha RPG
Are You Human?
A short little narrative puzzler which is kind of like if the WarioWare devs were hired to test someone's humanity before they can log in to a website.
It gets weird fast.
Hints
While this is a light puzzle game, I do want people to be able to finish it regardless of their interest in puzzling, so here are some spoiler-y hints at a few choice levels:
Nimbet is Tumbling
There is a Nimbet the right way up on the screen. Think outside the box.
Maths
Robots think of all maths in binary...
Maths will end in a 0 or a 1.
Gordian Knot
Google the actual Gordian Knot myth...
Okay, fine. Pick up the knife and slice away at the knot until it's cut in two, then click Verify.
Nimbet's Trash
There's a sneaky needle (the worst kind of needle) in the bottom right of the bin.
Random Page
You're looking for a word in a different font...
It's in the first line of the bottom paragraph.
Credit Card
If you've copied the numbers of one of the cards into the correct boxes, have you chosen the correct destination and date?
Ceremony
Bottom, Bottom Right, Bottom Left, Top Left, Top Right.
Wordle
It's two words.
The first word is 'HEY'.
It appeared on a book when you were looking for Nimbet's diary.
It's 'HEYDEMONS'.
Password
You forgot your password, didn't you...? Well it's all good, you can only enter it correctly so keep dragging letters into the box and get there by elimination.
Moral Combat
The action you should take depends on how you treated Nimbet previously. If you were mean to her before, double down and insult her now. If you were nice, keep being nice and attack the demon.
Wheel
You just gotta turn that bad boy.
It'll accept 30 years in the future, plus or minus a year. So if it's currently 2023, it'll accept any date that ends in 2052, 2053, or 2054.
If you went miles into the past as a joke, that's on you, man.
Acknowledgements
These are tools or assets that I've used to make whatever the heck this is. They've all come from relentlessly talented people and you should support them, but the inclusion of some of them could hint at later levels.
Only look in here if you just don't give a darn about that.
Inspired by ImTheBoyReal and all the madness on /r/BadUIBattles
Nimbet Sprites - From Mewki on itch.io: https://mewki.itch.io/fox-emotes
Icons - From Icons8: https://icons8.com/
Wordle - Built from Paul Akinyemi's great tutorial: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-wordle-clone-in-javascript/
Bazaar Map - From Neutral Party: https://www.patreon.com/neutralparty
Typing effect - Using Typed.js: https://github.com/mattboldt/typed.js
Comments
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I had so much fun with this! Thanks for the best CAPTCHA experience ever :)
Thank you! Let's hope big tech is listening and all CAPTCHAs become odd little narrative adventures. Do you hear me, Google? Do you hear me?!
Hope you had a lovely chat with your mum. Feel free to play this game every few weeks as a reminder to call home
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A fun short little game, nice!
Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed it <3