If anyone does use it with their kids:
a) There's a sneaky secret admin page linked at the bottom ('Change settings') where you can set a price-per-tooth and add a custom question for them to answer: https://tf230.matteason.co.uk/admin
b) Please send me a copy of their answers, I'd love to see their drawings! There's a download link on the confirmation page and you can email me at the bottom of the same page. Actually this goes for adults' drawings too because a few people have sent me theirs and they're hilarious
One of the minor villains in my D&D campaign is a literal living nightmare - one of three. Each one is named after a time of night when they appear, and this one is named 2:30 - because he really likes the nightmare where your teeth all fall out.
He's the spookiest one of them all, but the least dangerous.
Also, the tooth chart is an adult chart (32 teeth), not a child chart (24 teeth).
In any case, nice job and thanks for sharing!
Localisation is a great idea, I've created an issue: https://github.com/matteason/tooth-reimbursement-service/iss...
This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood.
Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out.
I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that.
When I got home, my parents said it's no problem, just write a letter explaining what happened and the tooth fairy will understand. And that worked.
Being a deviant, I decided to test it a few days later with another letter in secret, to no avail. And that was my first inclination this whole thing wasn't real.
Hopefully that's not the part of thr story you feel embarrassed about.
Knowingly making a false claim is a criminal offence under Section 17B(2) of the Teeth Finance & Renewal Act (1978) and you may be prosecuted, jailed, or blasted into space.
Should there perhaps be a way to indicate the type of tooth and a chart showing numbering for baby teeth?
My daughter was very worried that she might lose her tooth and swallow it, so I told her that the sewer mermaids have an agreement with the tooth fairy, and they'd deliver the tooth to her, and then she would deliver the money.
My child didn't buy it, but maybe ya'll's will be more believing :p
There's plenty of prior art depicting rabbit-sized Easter bunnies painting and loading eggs onto baskets and most kids have heard of the idea of Santa Claus having a workshop staffed by elves so I guess it's no big leap (or hop?) to deduct that there must be more than just one bunny involved, although you can argue about the relative time cost of hiding presents in multiple places compared to having to sneak into a building.
Perfect.
When I was like 6 a friend choked me and I swallowed my tooth. I was very sad because the tooth fairy ("ratón perez") would not pay me :(
But thankfully I found a note notifying me that they found my tooth and reimbursing me :)
So I see where the idea came from, but I wouldn't ever had imagined this bureocratic twist
They must really want those teeth bad.
Every tooth contains a government-installed tracker.
Backstory is here: https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3lkigjm7sk2...
...and here: https://bsky.app/profile/matteason.me/post/3lknf6qfsek2p
tl;dr Séamas O'Reilly wrote a column in The Observer about faking a government reimbursement form for his son, who had swallowed a tooth and was worried about whether the Tooth Fairy would pay up if the tooth couldn't be put under his pillow. He published the form as a PDF (linked from the homepage) and I turned it into a digital service
Someone on Bluesky told me about our first successfully-fooled child yesterday: "I can confirm that form TF-230 worked flawlessly, and my cynical, streetwise 8-year-old son was utterly baffled by finding an envelope with his application form and a handful of coins in the letterbox this afternoon."
It also got a good chuckle from those I shared it with at work! :)
Made my and several friends evenings. Thanks.
I've just changed it to 'eraser' but actually I should make it conditional on your navigator.language...
Is maths in British English plural? Like, should that be “the maths say”?
Check the tooth colours in dark mode though, "white" is very much not white (it's black).
If you implement dark mode yourself, you can add `<meta name="darkreader-lock" />` to prevent Dark Reader from triggering.
I truly thought UK gov did a joke to support children...
Or is it a timezone thing (The sun doesn't set over English empire, so no point waiting for tomorrow)?
Or, is this a real Government website and I am just being cynical?