Swiss lotto draw chaos denies jackpot winner million

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TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 08:24:54 GMT

This story was posted on Jun 16, 2017 Lottery Post News.

Katrina Bookman captured national attention last year when she played a Sphinx Slot Machine at Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York, and it appeared as though she'd won $43 million which would have been the largest jackpot ever won on the slots in U.S. history. She excitedly snapped a selfie with the screen, believing her life was forever changed.

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KY Floyd — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:56:11 GMT

What really happens is that people play slot machines millions of times every day, and once in every 100, 200 or 500 million times there's a glitch. If the glitch means they should have won but don't know we won't hear about it. OTOH, every single time there's a glitch where somebody thought they won a lot of money but didn't we hear a lot of whining from them and other people who think every mistake in the world should be decided in their favor.

Comment #12

eddessaknight — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:59:36 GMT

This happens all too often in casinos when the Jackpot WINNING SLOT machine is called invalid for technical reasons.

Pro-Player FairGame Advocate

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rcbbuckeye — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:32:59 GMT

Don't bother checking your winning number of the past 10 years.

That ticket expired.

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Tony Numbers — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 11:23:27 GMT

I think Donald Trump was conducting the drawing.

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TheMeatman2005 — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:57:38 GMT

With cell phone technology today, many people have unknown numbers or spam callers blocked from ringing on their phones.

It may have come through that way and he just didn't answer or it was blocked.

He would have been disqualified anyway since his was the 11th ticket put in by mistake

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KY Floyd — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:31:40 GMT

mistakenly put 11 lots into a drum manually

Is Swiss some place in Connecticut?

The official stressed that according to the rules the man declared the winner was not eligible because he had not picked up his phone.

So the guy wouldn't have won even if the drawing didn't get messed up. We'll never know who really missed out on the money because it was somebody who didn't get called because they drew a different name by mistake.

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sweetie7398 — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:27:16 GMT

Wow

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oate — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:18:44 GMT

WOW. You'd expect this type of needlessly convoluted drawing procedure and spectacular failure in a third-world country, not Switzerland.

Maybe some of the lottery employees were trying to rig it, but they didn't plan it and practice it enough. It is extremely suspicious that a phone number was missing and several people in a row missed their phone calls.

Comment #5

Xinyuhuang — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 05:50:52 GMT

Why should I check the winning number of the past 10 years? Is the winning ticket the number in the past 10 years? Request help answer, I hope to get everyone's reply, thank you for helping me solve my question.

Comment #4

Coin Toss — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:54:02 GMT

One of those Congratulations and we're sorry situations

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winsumloosesum — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:22:24 GMT

I would be PO'd not a Good Sport.

Comment #2

music* — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:20:48 GMT

good sport is a professional who understands these things happen. When humans are involved in something then some things go wrong on occasion.

Comment #1

maximumfun — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:11:59 GMT

Define good sport ...

Swiss lotto draw chaos denies jackpot winner million

Lottery Post — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 03:41:15 GMT

A Swiss man won a million and then lost it on Saturday, when a televised Swiss lotto draw went chaotically wrong.

For Andreas B rkli it would have been a lottery dream come true, when his name was pulled out of a drum and announced by German singer Herbert Gr nemeyer.

Swiss public TV channel SRF apologised after declaring him the winner, explaining that a mistake had been made due to technical problems.

A new draw will be made and the winner will find out after Christmas.

Swiss websi... [ More ]