Back on topic.
I was looking for an article in the local rag, we had several people here "Win", however the whole lot has vanished from their archives...
Lucky I printed it out or I would have thought I was imagining things.
My research did bring up a few gems though, and I have to share, especially the last one with some examples of new scratch cards which
should be issued.
NATIONAL LOTTERY - COOL CASH
The blurb on the card said if your temperature is lower than today’s temperature then you win the cash amount next to it.
I'm sure all of you know and have played the same type of game card.
- Today’s temperature was 05
- my temperature was 03
And a cash amount of £5,000 was next to the 03 temperature.
Needless to say I said summit like 'ya fucking beauty’. I called the national lottery claim line and said I’ve just won £5,000 on a scratch card can you tell me how to claim. It was then the dude on the phone pointed out the MINUS symbols next to the temperatures numbers - and the card actually works in the opposite way in terms of winning and losing.
So , Despite the card saying you need a lower number to win, you actually need a higher number to win because its a minus number .
Yes ..... the dude said they have had lots of similar calls with people wanting claim forms for cool cash scratch cards .
No point crying over spilt milk etc etc , But somebody at the national lottery needs their balls booted & to be honest it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the game was done this way on purpose just so somebody could get a good laugh at all the dumb sun/mirror readers .
It also means that lots of 'winning' cards will be just chucked away as it’s highly unlikely that any confusion will be one sided.
I guess you cant really blame anybody for having a good laugh at the above - but I cant help but wonder if any chav housing estate scum actually borrowed money from a shylock money lender on the strength on what they thought they had won on a cool cash scratch card .
This has been shamelessly borrowed from another site.
http://booktwo.org/ I love the concept.
To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing.
But the concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for some Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.
The worst part is that Camelot (the company that runs the Lottery) has withdrawn the scratchcards - effectively admitting that it’s not OK to rip off fools, even in the name of charity.
But as my friend Ed pointed out, they missed a trick here: we need more difficult questions, not fewer ones. Studying should be rewarded. People who worked hard at school should have a better chance of winning a rollover.
In this spirit then, booktwo is proud to put forward its suggestions for new Lottery scratchcards, ones which we believe will do more to improve the nation than all that cash for the Olympics can possibly do. It being booktwo, we obviously had to focus on improving the literacy rates among British lottery players, so here goes:
