yeah,<br>and some of these people actually decide they have enough math skills to take my Physics classes, I swear....<br><br><br><b><i>Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> (Manchester Evening News)<br><br>A LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot - because<br>players couldn't understand it.<br><br>The Cool Cash game - launched on Monday - was taken out of shops<br>yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had<br>won.<br><br>To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a<br>temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game<br>had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing.<br><br>But the concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for<br>some Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players<br>who could
not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.<br><br>Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win<br>with several cards.<br><br>The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE,<br>said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower<br>than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won,<br>and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the<br>machine said I hadn't.<br><br>"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is<br>higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.<br><br>"I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression - the card<br>doesn't say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to<br>look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8.<br>Imagine how many people have been misled."<br><br>A Camelot spokeswoman said the game was withdrawn after reports<br>that some players had not understood the
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