Security News > 2022 > January > Microsoft Skype challenge: Can you solve this puzzle 10 times?
New Skype users report frustration after being presented with a captcha that requires them to solve a complex puzzle ten times before signing up for the service.
Tests by BleepingComputer confirmed the problematic captcha required when signing up for a Microsoft account via Skype-even after verifying your email address.
The captcha puzzle presented to those signing up for Skype requires the user to keep rotating through an image with a sphere containing arrows pointed in random directions until there are "Exactly 2 arrows" left, pointing directly upward.
The captcha presented by Skype during the Microosft account signup process to BleepingComputer took at least five minutes to get through the eighth attempt, with two more attempts left.
After submitting the captcha, we found out that we had gotten the answers wrong and had to reattempt the puzzle to figure out which part we got wrong.
Other users report having spent half an hour on solving an alternative captcha presented by Skype.