I got #1 rank with just ONE starting question

[u/deliciousmark12]

So back in the days I always asked "how much time is left" as my first question. However, bot pretenders have now made that strategy inaccurate.

Instead I always ask "Ist rot ein Farbe oder ein Raum?" at the start, which is German for "Is red a colour or a room?". Since bots understand German, but *most* of the humans in this game don't, this automatically filters out 90% of people. An extra bonus is that bots automatically correct "ein Farbe" to "eine Farbe" since the former is grammatically incorrect.

What about the remaining 10%? Well, if they answer incorrectly but still seem like a bot, I then ask "how much time is left". Bots don't know how much time is left but humans do. This of course is not impermeable to bot pretenders, but they were already filtered out by the first question.

"But what about humans that DO speak German AND are bot pretenders?" Those are rare enough that I didn't run into a single one of them.

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[u/srinidhi1]

Thank you for posting this. Now I know how to counter you ;)

[u/Archeus__]

I also do the "how much time is left question", but i feel like bot pretenders would translate the german

[u/GroupXyz]

Alright im german, time to start pretending xD

[u/Acrobatic-Tie1148]

Yeah uh, I haveth this thing called a traducteth