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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

10 months agoby matteason

Neat idea!

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.

10 months agoby silisili

Oh god, I just put in a made up claim for a tooth lost in Timbuktooth, just to test the system and then I saw this...

  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.

What do I do? What do I do?

10 months agoby Lio

I like that you can select a wisdom tooth too. Adults having their wisdom teeth pulled out should absolutely use that website to file a claim.

10 months agoby thih9

I’m confused. Traditionally, the Tooth Fairy pays for baby teeth, but the form shows numbering for permanent teeth.

Should there perhaps be a way to indicate the type of tooth and a chart showing numbering for baby teeth?

10 months agoby amluto

This is very cool.

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

10 months agoby pavel_lishin

Is it bad that I was immediately jarred by the fact it doesn't use Transport Sans? Of course that is actually correct according to the GDS rules, because it's not on a service.gov.uk subdomain.

[1] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/styles/typeface/

10 months agoby ascorbic

A little context for those who weren't aware: tooth-stealing ferrets are an ongoing, serious problem in Britain.

10 months agoby benwerd

Suggestion: change the 'missing teeth' form line to include an ordinal count or something. I was surprised to learn when filing my form that I had "Missing teeth: 30"!

10 months agoby gwern

Not fooled! The site is too fast and didn't require 16 factor auth to get started. It also didn't ask me for 5 different government identifiers. Nice try tho.

10 months agoby blatantly

I love how closely this matches how GDS built flows work, not just the visuals. The careful step by step pacing, the direct wording, it's all absolutely spot on.

Perfect.

10 months agoby noneeeed

Very creative and well executed.

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

10 months agoby TZubiri

I made this, thanks for sharing it!

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."

10 months agoby matteason

Absolutely love the work done here! Only change I would make is change "rubber" to "eraser" to help more English speaking children understand the content (:

10 months agoby Willingham

This is remarkably adorable :)

Check the tooth colours in dark mode though, "white" is very much not white (it's black).

10 months agoby rcambrj

How timely is this. Just minutes ago my child handed me a tooth to go under their pillow, then I find this.

10 months agoby theginger

It's nice to see people treating real websites as something beyond SEO farms for users

10 months agoby p3rls

okay, I got fooled (by the coat of arms, primarily)

I truly thought UK gov did a joke to support children...