The Norwegian lottery got thousands of players excited with messages telling them they had won big in the Eurojackpot only to ...

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Thousands of Norwegian lottery players experienced an emotional rollercoaster after being told they’d won substantial prizes – only to discover it was all due to a catastrophic technical error.

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The national lottery operator in Norway apologized after at least 47,000 people who won small amounts were mistakenly told ...

(Gray News) – Thousands of people in Norway thought they had won large lottery prizes, only to be told it was a mistake. In ...

Virtually everyone who plays the lottery does so clinging to the hope they'll be one of the lucky people who end up winning a ...

The incident stemmed from a manual coding error during the conversion of lottery winnings from euros to Norwegian kroner. Norsk Tipping, which administers Eurojackpot in Norway, ...

Players had made "plans for holidays, buying an apartment or renovating before they realized that the amount was wrong." ...

Norway’s national lottery apologizes after players were mistakenly told that they had won life-changing sums due to coding ...

Norsk Tipping CEO Tonje Sagstuen resigned after a coding error falsely told 41,000 Eurojackpot players they won millions.

The lottery operator expressed regret over the confusion and the impact it had on those who believed they had struck it rich.