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'Cool Cash' card confusion

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A LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot – because players couldn’t understand it…..

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards. The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said:

“On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn’t.

“I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher – not lower – than -8 but I’m not having it. “I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression – the card doesn’t say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8. Imagine how many people have been misled.”

Manchester Evening News

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8 responses to “'Cool Cash' card confusion”

  1. barbara avatar
    barbara

    am i allowed to say ‘no comment’

    Reply
  2. Merry avatar
    Merry

    Dear god…..

    Reply
  3. Gem avatar
    Gem

    My 7yo has just figured out negative numbers on her own and is going around making up equations and solving them. She got it.

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  4. Sarah, Dino and Mimi avatar
    Sarah, Dino and Mimi

    **sigh**

    Reply
  5. Bryony avatar
    Bryony

    You have to be kidding me…

    Reply
  6. Gem avatar
    Gem

    I just read said 7yo this story, and now she’s crowing about the house “I’m smarter than a 23-year-old lady!!!”

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  7. Deb avatar
    Deb

    You know that line about lotteries being a tax on the stupid?
    I think we might just have found the poster-child…

    Reply
  8. Em avatar
    Em

    oh dear.
    whilst at camp on a blowy beach E said to me “if I count from -100 to 0 its funny because the numbers are going down but I’m getting bigger!”
    5 year olds can manage it……

    Reply

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