PlayThru hopes to kill text captchas with game-based authentication

At their worst, captchas are impossible to decipher; at their best, they're. fun. A startup called Are You a Human has developed PlayThru, an alternative to text-based authentication. Instead of requiring the user to type some blurry, nonsensical word, PlayThru has them play a mini-game, such as dragging and dropping a car into an open parking spot. The startup says this method is more secure than word captchas - since automated bots have a harder time solving these image-based puzzles - and more fun, because users generally have a better time when their ability to identify letters isn't called into question.

Engadget, PlayThru hopes to kill text captchas with game-based authentication