Britain’s debt and numeracy crises, explained in one story:
“A LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot – because players couldn’t understand it.
The Cool Cash game – launched on Monday – was taken out of shops yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had won.
[...]
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.’
[...]
A Camelot spokeswoman said the game was withdrawn after reports that some players had not understood the concept.”
From the Manchester Evening News, via James Fox
I am speechless, but not linkless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9dCwwzXC4I
Why isnt this a surprise