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DC Lottery offers compensation for players affected by computerized draw errorNews Story
DC Lottery offers several pathways for remediation after programming error caused untold tickets to lose out By Kate Northrop After Lottery Post alerted the DC Lottery to a possible error that prevented tickets from winning in three of its local draw games for weeks, the DC Lottery has announced several different forms of compensation for players who may have been impacted by the computerized drawing glitch. Last week, Lottery Post reached out to the DC Lottery after Lottery Post mem
Apr 27, 2026, 7:22 pm - Todd - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
Jade Lottery, ty for discovering the coding error..............hope you get a big win!
Apr 23, 2026, 3:10 am - Keystone - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeNews Story
Certain combinations had no chance of winning for three weeks By Kate Northrop Following independent observations by Lottery Post members of an unlikely statistical anomaly in Washington, D.C. draw outcomes, the DC Lottery identified a software problem that meant certain combinations had no shot at winning prizes in three games. The DC Lottery has implemented a fix for a coding error that prevented some tickets from winning in three of its local draw games for three weeks. After
Apr 22, 2026, 1:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Thousands of Norway lottery players mistakenly told they won millionsNews Story
Lottery operator CEO steps down after massive blunder By Kate Northrop Thousands of Norwegians were told last week that they had won lifechanging amounts of money in the lottery, only to have those hopes dashed away when it turned out to be a massive technical error. 47,000 Norway lottery players were sent on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when they received a notification that they had won millions, when in actuality the amounts were far less. On Friday, Norway's state-owned l
Jul 3, 2025, 8:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
The coding error blocking repeat digits like 111 or 229 in DC 3, 4, and 5 draws from March 31 to April 21 wiped out roughly 27% of combos in DC 3 alone (since 10^3=1,000 total minus 720 unique-digit ones), which is why sharp LP folks caught the stats anomaly so fast. Kudos to DC Lottery for owning it and switching to backups quickly, but holding tickets means they're likely cooking up a fair remediation, maybe prorated payouts based on odds adjustment. Ball draws aren't foolproof either (machine
Apr 28, 2026, 12:38 pm - RichW - Lottery News

DC Lottery offers compensation for players affected by computerized draw errorReply
Sure agnoledging Lottery Posts Intel about the glitch would be an admission of guilt. No one ever admits wrongdoing. They blame human error albeit a third party(see it wasn't us)
Apr 28, 2026, 6:37 am - Tony Numbers - Lottery News

US Powerball multi-state lottery game expanding to the UKReply
Skipped over the mandatory UK 30 payments part, which is my error.... At least it should only leave 1-2 years of fully owed remaining(7%) taxes that can be potentially not paid. Course, payment 29 and 30 will have the biggest tax collection aspect.
Apr 16, 2026, 1:19 pm - CDanaT - Lottery News

Thousands of Norway lottery players mistakenly told they won millionsReply
Anyone can file a lawsuit. The vendor took the correct action by have a high level vendor rep step down. Unless a person received a check, cashed it, and the state or country tried to take it back at that point, the lawsuits will lose. It is a calculation error and a reasonable person does not spend money until it is in the bank.
Jul 4, 2025, 6:45 am - Artist77 - Lottery News

South Carolina Lottery offers refunds for misprinted Cash Pop ticketsNews Story
Technical issue resolved, sales resumed as of Wednesday By Kate Northrop The South Carolina Lottery is offering a refund for the purchase price of tickets that were affected by a technical issue that caused a misprinting error on some Cash Pop tickets. The South Carolina Lottery is asking players who received a misprinted Cash Pop ticket to send in their affected tickets to receive a refund. If you purchased a South Carolina Cash Pop ticket for the Monday, Nov. 17. 2025 drawing w
Nov 21, 2025, 8:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
I have a bit of sympathy about that response that players were getting from the lottery, mainly because the lotteries all get accused by angry gamblers daily of being rigged. So the handful of messages they might have received as a result of this drawing error were likely dwarfed by the daily onslaught of similar messages that do not have a shred of proof. You really can't expect a customer service rep to sort all that out, and the result is a canned response, because most of the time what they
Apr 22, 2026, 6:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News