Beat: To dumb to understand lotto scratch card.

[The once and future king]

A lotto scratch card operator in the UK (Camelot) has had to withdraw a scratchcard because many players have complained about not being able to understand if they have won or lost.

Teasers from the link:

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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

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How can I be the same species as someone this dumb, now I knoes why I can make £££ at the poker.

[Alobar]

hahaha, awesome

[Gildwulf]

to dumb or not to dumb, that is the question

[ebepse]

but 6 and 7 are littler numbers than 8

[adanthar]

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to dumb or not to dumb, that is the question

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is it more noble to suffer through these horrible spelling errors, or to fix them and ruin the joke?

[benlj21]

woooooooow this is a gem

"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."

[ebepse]

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woooooooow this is a gem

"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."

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"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."

[Gildwulf]

Camelot was not available to comment on these accusations:

[rakemeplz]

Srsly its like those -s turn everything into bizarro world and we're supposed to buy it. ITS OBVIOUSLY JUST A SCAM.

[Georgia Avenue]

A+ scame