See, you DO need to know algebra when you grow up

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/12/100059-britons-utterly-confused-by-simple-math-on-their-lotto-scratchers/

Tina Farrell, 23, from Manchester, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.

She told the Manchester Evening News: “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."