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captcha
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7 LETTERS7 POINTS
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When captcha helps
Base Score
7
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
A C H P T
Two-Letter Start
CA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
HA
Check this pattern late
- 7 letters
- 5 unique letters
- CA start
- HA ending
- repeated letters
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- captcha is worth 7 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, h, p, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (A x2, C x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The HA ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
noun
A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that he/she is a human and not a computer program.