That was tricky...

OK, I signed in today: that was tricky putting "Desert animals" (or whatever that was) in the pictures where you are only supposed to click on food-related books. I almost clicked and then had to think: one or two S's...?

Ha! That's pretty funny.

>2 Bookmarque:

FWIW, I constantly have trouble with those things. I'm autistic, and literal-minded, and the descriptions of what to look for are often not specific enough. Too much Lewis Carroll thinking plus bad eyesight is a recipe for trouble. (Dessert trouble, no doubt.)

I was taught to remember dessert has the extra S because you want seconds.

I think accuracy of picks is not as important as the rate of assessment and movement of the mouse on the regular captchas--that's how the "I am not a robot" checkbox captcha works. But LT may be different.

I got one the other day that asked me to identify crosswalks, and there were none visible, just a couple of cross-hatch painted road shoulders. I used the "Give me a different test" button on that one.

I'm pretty sure accuracy of picks is not strictly important. I believe staff has said somewhere that you can misclassify one of the covers without being deemed a robot.

>4 Taphophile13: Hah! That is clever!

>4 Taphophile13:

I learned a variation on that. Dessert has double S because you want it to last longer. Desert has one because you want to rush through it.

I think they also keep track of ones that many people get wrong.

>5 paradoxosalpha: I think I remember that Tim said that the algorithm checks that you choose the right books (not the SF ones, even if somebody could have some doubts about https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C8BZQCB , whose title translates to "Memoirs of a spaceship cook"), but you are allowed a mistake, since someone a blank cover may be shown.

>8 sqdancer: I like that too!

The opposite of desserts is stressed. So if you are stressed you need to counteract that with desserts. Deserts won't work.

>12 MarthaJeanne: Love this!!!

Hahaha, I love those "donkey bridges" for deserts and desserts.

(A donkey bridge is a dutchism for a silly mnemonic.)

>14 Ennas:
Doubtless from pons asinorum. The shift in meaning is interesting.

My favorite slightly-confusing example is



But as others have said, you get one free mistake.

Sahara is a desert (one ess) and strawberry shortcake is a dessert (two esses)

but is it cakessss, preciousssss?

>18 MrAndrew: Of course, Gollum. It wasssss very much cakessss, preciousssssss.