{"id":2040,"date":"2007-11-06T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T18:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2007-11-06T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T18:33:51","slug":"me-fail-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Me Fail Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing.<\/p>\n<p>But the concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for some[.] Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happily, this particular idiocy isn't happening in the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/s\/1022757_cool_cash_card_confusion\">it's in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing. But the concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for some[.] Camelot received dozens of complaints on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}