Lottery glitch gives woman winning ticket after winning ticket
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Unfortunately, Nicole Coggins' five winning lottery tickets were found to be invalid because of the Christmas day glitch. (iStock)
Nicole Coggins, who lives in Liberty, SC, thought it was a Christmas miracle when she bought a winning $500 “Holiday Cash” insta-pay ticket.
Then she bought three more — all winners.
“I thought maybe there’s something wrong with the machine. This can’t be real,’’ she told Greenville TV station WYFF.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}It wasn’t real.
When she tried to cash the “winners,” she was told they were invalid.
A programming glitch had created too many winning “add a play” tickets for two hours on Christmas Day.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}If the state decides to honor the tickets, it will have to play Santa Claus to the tune of some $19.6 million.