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What are those pseudo-CAPTCHAs for?

What are the CAPTCHAs at ScienceBlog trying to achieve? Is it really that hard to write a robot that can answer the question:
What is the fifth word in the phrase “xulapet iqo nuvec ujo uhuzero”?
All the robot needs to do is recognize the words “first”, “second”, etc.


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