A computer glitch on Christmas could give mistaken winners in the South Carolina lottery almost $20 million
A computer glitched in a lottery game in South Carolina on Christmas Day for two hours and many noticed and bought multiple US$500 winning tickets
By Rebecca Harrington
A computer glitched in a lottery game in South Carolina on Christmas Day for two hours. Many people noticed and bought multiple US$500 winning tickets. The lottery decided to set aside US$19.6 million to possibly give to holders of the mistaken winning tickets. On Christmas day for about two hours, a computer glitch made every US$1 Holiday Cash Add-A-Play ticket a US$500 winner in South Carolina.
People caught on and bought multiple tickets. One woman, Nicole Coggins, told local NBC affiliate WYFF News 4 that she and her mother-in-law spent US$100 playing the game at multiple locations and won US$18,000.
But when they went to collect their winnings, Coggins said, the machine said their tickets were invalid.
A convenience store worker told The New York Times that his location didn’t have enough money on hand to give winners their money.