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Nicole Coggins, of 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.
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Well…it wasn’t real. When she tried to cash the “winners,” she was told they were invalid.
A glitch in the programming had created too many winning “add a play” tickets for two hours on Christmas Day.
If the state decides to honor the tickets, it will have to pay out roughly $19.6 million.
This article originally appeared on the New York Post.
