What was SO secret about the new UK PlaySlip?

[PAB]

I don't know if other UK members were told at the beginning of the week that the new formatted PlaySlip wouldn't be available until Thursday, but where I live I was.

This made it all sound very clandestine and magical.

Well, it was neither of those two things .

All they have done is to restructure the ticket to exclude the section that you marked to enter the PLUS 5 draw and move everything up the PlaySlip to fill in these deleted gaps. Then at the bottom of the PlaySlip there is a bigger section promoting the new Now Lotto's bigger than ever slogan. Other than that, there is no significant change to the PlaySlip at all.

The scanner still has its guidelines grid as depicted by the black rectangular boxes at the top, bottom and side of the PlaySlip, although the four in the middle at the bottom of the PlaySlip have moved to the right for some reason. Perhaps this is just for the scanner to differentiate between the old and new PlaySlips, because I would assume that these new PlaySlips was prepared many months before hand and tested to make sure that the change over went smoothly and without any hiccups.

I might actually email them and enquire about the black rectangular boxes.

So, we now know why the PlaySlip price has doubled, it was all that VERY involved technical stuff they have done.

Regards,
PAB


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12:45, restate my assumptions.
(1) Mathematics is the language of nature.
(2) Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
(3) If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns, everywhere in nature.

 

[Frank]

They weren't told about a new playslip AT ALL. Instead they were allowed to fill in the old playslip with their newly reduced number of lines, then join the queue at the Lotto counter only to be told "Sorry the machine won't read these old slips, you'll have to start again and fill in these new ones, then go to back of the queue and start waiting AGAIN. I , like some others in the queue fell for that one. Some people with disabilities, who have a problem standing in queues were seriously unimpressed.

 

[PAB]

Hi Frank,

They weren't told about a new playslip AT ALL. Instead they were allowed to fill in the old playslip with their newly reduced number of lines, then join the queue at the Lotto counter only to be told "Sorry the machine won't read these old slips, you'll have to start again and fill in these new ones, then go to back of the queue and start waiting AGAIN. I , like some others in the queue fell for that one. Some people with disabilities, who have a problem standing in queues were seriously unimpressed.

Well, just when you think they can't get any worse they pull a stroke like that.

I think they seriously need to get a PR department that have got some people skills and at least have double figure brain cells.
I must admit that I normally do my Lotto at my local Tesco's, and to be fair to them, they have always been on the ball, this time being no exception.
Camelot should have advertised the fact that the old tickets would be obsolete as from the Wednesday evening draw and that new tickets would be needed for the Saturday evening draw, that's just common sense isn't it? obviously not!
I think I would have been REALLY annoyed too if that had happened to me.
We will just have to see how the all singing all dancing new draw goes on Saturday, I am not holding my breathe.

Regards,
PAB


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12:45, restate my assumptions.
(1) Mathematics is the language of nature.
(2) Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
(3) If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns, everywhere in nature.

 

[Icewynd]

Hehehehe! Had the same issue here in Canada. Filled out my playslip at home, went to the lotto kiosk and waited in line only to be told that the machine wouldn't accept the old playslips.

So I transferred my numbers to the "new" slip. The sum total of the changes? At the top you can select Lotto 6/49, Ontario 49 or you can play both. The old slip said 6/49 $2, both $2.50, the "new" slip says 6/49 $3, both $3.50. That's it, that's all.