{"id":54906,"date":"2015-07-09T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T05:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54906"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:18:22","slug":"error-turns-into-1-1-million-win-for-nine-online-bc-lottery-corp-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/09\/error-turns-into-1-1-million-win-for-nine-online-bc-lottery-corp-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Error turns into $1.1 million win for nine online BC Lottery Corp. players"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35315\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35315\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KAMLOOPS, B.C. &#8212; The BC Lottery Corp. says it is paying nine gamblers nearly $1.1 million because of a software error in one of its online video games.<\/p>\n<p>The error was found in a bonus feature, called a progressive jackpot, in the online slot-machine game the Wizard of Odds.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Susan Dolinski says an error message appeared when players hit the jackpot and they didn&#8217;t get paid.<\/p>\n<p>The corporation says it removed the game from its PlayNow.com website June 10, conducted a review, discovered the error and identified nine players who had won the progressive jackpots totalling nearly $1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Dolinski says it will also reimburse others who played the game and experienced a loss between July 16, 2014 and June 11, 2015, while those who won money will still get to keep their winnings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zepbound online <a href=\"https:\/\/watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zepbound.html\">watchrx.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zepbound.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The lottery corporation says it has made $109 million in gross revenue in 2014 and 2015 through its gaming website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMLOOPS, B.C. &#8212; The BC Lottery Corp. says it is paying nine gamblers nearly $1.1 million because of a software &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281933,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54906\/revisions\/281933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}