{"id":213235,"date":"2022-05-12T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=213235"},"modified":"2022-05-13T01:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T08:26:06","slug":"new-york-lottery-payouts-suspended-amid-mega-millions-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-york-lottery-payouts-suspended-amid-mega-millions-mix-up\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Lottery Payouts Suspended Amid Mega Millions Mix-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Lottery has blamed \u201chuman error\u201d for a mistake in the publication of Tuesday night\u2019s Mega Millions results.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t rip up your Mega Millions tickets just yet, New Yorkers. The New York Lottery published the wrong results on Tuesday. (Image: WIBX 950)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Officials said the Mega Ball number, which can increase prize winnings exponentially for those who get it right, was input as a 6 rather than a 9. An easy mistake to make, especially if you\u2019re looking at the numbers upside-down.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, no one won the \u201cwrong\u201d jackpot on Tuesday, only to have it whisked away from them, along with their dreams. It\u2019s currently unclear if anyone has won the jackpot using the \u201ccorrect\u201d combination of numbers.<\/p>\n

The jackpot is currently an estimated $86 million. Should it roll over to Friday night\u2019s draw, it\u2019s expected to be around $99 million (cash option $57 million).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lottery officials said they were \u201cactively working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,\u201d and urged people to hold on to their tickets. And definitely don\u2019t tear them up.<\/p>\n

The corrected winning combination is 15-19-20-61-70, with the Mega Ball 9.<\/p>\n

$3M Printing Error <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mistakes by lottery operators are rare, but not as rare as you might think. Only last month, Indiana\u2019s Hoosier Lottery was embarrassed to discover a printing error meant all its $20 Golden Jackpot Fast Play scratch-off tickets were $5,000 winners.<\/p>\n

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The lottery halted sales hours after the mistake was discovered, by which time it had sold 632 for a liability of more than $3 million. To the Hoosier Lottery\u2019s credit, it has agreed to honor the payouts and is currently exploring ways to recoup its losses. Officials blame lottery services provider IGT for the mix-up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

IGT has been responsible for similar gaffes in Kentucky and Nebraska. In 2018, it inadvertently flooded Nebraska with misprinted tickets that created more false wins, ranging from a few dollars to $40,000.<\/p>\n

The company blamed the mistake on a failure of \u201cimage synchronization,\u201d which meant some symbols appeared in the wrong grids, creating winners where there were none.<\/p>\n

Nebraska Lottery officials were feeling less charitable than their counterparts in Indiana and refused to payout.<\/p>\n

Scratch the Prizes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Perhaps the cruelest scratch-off fiasco occurred on\u00a0Christmas Day, 2017\u00a0in South Carolina. That\u2019s when the state lottery\u2019s Greek service provider, Intralot, accidentally printed 71,000 winning tickets, creating around $35 million in illusory prizes.<\/p>\n

In fact, every single ticket that went out for sale in the Holiday Cash Add-A-Play game was a winner. South Carolinians might have thought Christmas had come early, were it not actually Christmas Day already.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After some soul searching, the South Carolina Lottery decided not to pay out on the tickets. Instead, it merely refunded the $1 price of each ticket to customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Lottery has blamed \u201chuman error\u201d for a mistake in the publication of Tuesday night\u2019s Mega Millions results. Officials said the Mega Ball number, which can increase prize winnings exponentially for those who get it right, was input as a 6 rather than a 9. 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