Sometimes customers make silly mistakes – and win anyway. Sometimes lottery companies make very silly mistakes, and have to withdraw games, re-run draws or just apologize a lot with egg on their face. But whatever the problem, here’s where you’ll find all those stories.
Lottery Mistakes
Second Super Draw Will Be Held After New Year’s Day Lottery Error
January 15th, 2018
When lotteries make mistakes, it often benefits the players. This is because many lotteries are willing to offer concessions in order to preserve the integrity of the games they offer.
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Lottery Game Suffers Christmas Day Glitch
January 7th, 2018
A glitch in one of their games have left South Carolina Education Lottery officials red-faced, and a lot of players terribly disappointed.
A computer error affected the Holiday Cash Add-A-Play game from 5:51 p.m.
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Arizona Lottery Glitch Causes Same Winning Numbers To Be Drawn
October 22nd, 2017
When lottery games are hit with technical glitches, it can be costly for the operator. Such is the case with the Arizona lottery these days as it has been hit with the problem of duplicate winning numbers from supposedly random number generators.
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Lottery Players Suspect A Fix As Two Numbers Seen In One Ball
October 22nd, 2017
Having lottery draws televised improves transparency. But then any glitches become immediately apparent and sometimes cause controversy.
This was the case in Saturday night’s Ireland’s Lotto Plus 1 draw where the top prize was £4.5 million.
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Iowa Lottery Error Reveals Details Of 3000 Winners
September 29th, 2017
The Iowa Lottery issued an apology after a mistake caused sensitive data to be released.
This time data about 2,967 winners of prizes $600 or more in 2011 were provided to a professor of journalism at the Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
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Unnoticed Mix-up In The $758.7 Million Powerball Announcement
September 22nd, 2017
It was a record breaking single person win record when Mavis Wanczyk posted a $758.7 million Powerball lottery win. But amidst the celebration, a mix-up in the announcement went unnoticed for some time.
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NJ Lottery Scraps Poker Game Just 3 Days After Launch
August 23rd, 2017
New Jersey’s High Card Poker scratch off game debuted on Aug. 7, but just three days later the lottery had pulled it off the market. The reason?
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CT Lottery Advises Players To Recheck Tickets After Glitch
August 19th, 2017
A glitch in the ticket scanning app of the CT Lottery has caused it to misread winning tickets as losers for almost two full days. The erroneous readings were made between 12:25 p.m.
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Powerball Redrawn After Technical Issues [video]
August 13th, 2017
The NZ Lottery’s Powerball draw hit a snag. And it was caught on live TV. Watch this!
There was a hitch during the NZ Powerball draw on Saturday.
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Chase the Ace Draw Postponed Over Duplicate Tickets
August 1st, 2017
Canada’s lottery regulators Service NL has launched an investigation into the Chase the Ace draw after evidence of duplicate tickets was brought to their attention. In light of the developments, the draw for Chase the Ace lottery originally scheduled for Wednesday in St.
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