{"id":69056,"date":"2018-02-02T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=69056"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:20:00","slug":"south-carolina-lottery-faces-lawsuit-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/south-carolina-lottery-faces-lawsuit-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Lottery in Lawsuit Hell After Printing 42,000 Winning Tickets on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South Carolina Lottery is facing a lose-lose situation over a botched lottery game that allowed everyone who played it to win-win.<\/p>\n

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The South Carolina Lottery\u2019s Holiday Cash Add-A-Play game created 42,000 winners in the space of two hours on Christmas Day. Some suspect it\u2019s the work of a \u201cBad Santa.\u201d (Image: Colombia Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For players of the Holiday Cash Add-A-Play game, it was like Christmas had come early, except that it actually was Christmas, so in this case Christmas was pretty much bang on time.<\/p>\n

Because, for more than two hours on December 25, 2017, everyone was a winner when the lottery accidentally printed 42,000 winning tickets.<\/p>\n

The Holiday Cash game played like tic-tac-toe, but rather than linking zeros or crosses, the aim was to find three Christmas trees in a row. Because of a monumental glitch, however, every single ticket sold showed Christmas trees across all nine squares, like an alpine forest, instead of the maximum five that were supposed to have been printed.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the magic of Christmas, except the South Carolina Lottery wasn\u2019t really feeling it.<\/p>\n

South Carolina Lottery Turns Ever Green<\/strong><\/h2>\n

South Carolina<\/a> may have to fork out over $33 million in winnings thanks to this festive misadventure, money that was earmarked for school busses and scholarships.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s that Catch 22: if lottery officials don\u2019t cough up, there is the alarming possibility they will face 42,000 lawsuits. If they do, they face lawsuits from advocacy groups that are already pointing out the lottery commission is not supposed to pay out on misprinted tickets.<\/p>\n

Either way, it\u2019s an administrative headache for the lottery commission, and one that\u2019s severely damaging to public trust.<\/p>\n

The lottery in our state has a lot at stake with our credibility,” observed\u00a0David Kornegay, a member of the lottery oversight panel, at a hearing on Thursday. “It’s problematic for me to say, ‘These were misprints, and we’re not going to pay.’ “<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the schools will have to go without their funding as the money remains in limbo, possibly for years, while the inevitable lawsuits are resolved.<\/p>\n

Satanic Cyber Santa?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lottery Director Hogan Brown told the hearing that he had hired the services of Gaming Laboratories International of New Jersey to investigate the fiasco, and to establish whether Intralot, the South Carolina\u2019s Lottery\u2019s Greek technology provider, is in any way liable.<\/p>\n

But many believe the timing of the glitch points to darker forces: there have been rumors that a sinister South Carolina cyber-Santa has been pulling the strings from the shadows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis smells a lot like somebody’s idea of being Santa Claus on Christmas Day,” said Neil Robinson, chairman of the Education Oversight Committee and member of the lottery panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South Carolina Lottery is facing a lose-lose situation over a botched lottery game that allowed everyone who played it to win-win. For players of the Holiday Cash Add-A-Play game, it was like Christmas had come early, except that it actually was Christmas, so in this case Christmas was pretty much bang on time. 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