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There are plenty of tricks around Visual Captchas. What you need is a semantic captcha that's only recognizable as such by a human. Hide a simple question somewhere in a piece of text.


Who writes the question and answer?

Although...maybe you could outsource the question and answering to Mechanical Turk. Turn the whole thing on its head. Have a real person write a question to try to trick the bot into revealing its botness, have the real human grade the answer.




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