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.”
Via theferrett,
‘Cool Cash’ card confusion
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