Have you ever had a customer say they’ve chucked away a winning lottery ticket? There have been, apparently, 14 unclaimed winning tickets in the UK within the last six months, eight of which were for a million quid.
A mob called Minimum Deposit Casinos (MDC) thinks it’s fair to assume some of these have been tossed in the trash and, with this riveting thought in mind, emailed Under The Counter to see if he could spot a missing lottery ticket in a bin full of rubbish. Just a wee bit of new year fun, like.
According to MDC, it takes at least a minute to find the ticket, with 20% giving up entirely. UTC gave up before he started – because he hates puzzles – and jumped straight to the answer, only to discover that he still couldn’t find it.
The Auld Boy did, however, while away at least a minute marvelling at the huge amount of electrical waste MDC was sending to landfill and wondering in what crazy clip art universe mobile phones and digital cameras are the same size as AA batteries and paperclips.
Now UTC never prints out emails. In fact, he seldom even reads them. However, he went to the bother of pressing Ctrl + P on this occasion, just so he could screw up the message and chuck it in the bin. Narrowly avoiding a tiny hairdryer.
Have a go at the puzzle yourself. Just a wee bit of new year fun, like. If you’re stuck, then have a gander at the so-called ‘solution’.
