Oregon Lottery reports glitch

The lottery suffered a five-hour glitch in July that made all Keno tickets losers.

US.- The Oregon Lottery revealed that all Keno tickets from July 23 ended up as losers, even when some of them weren’t. The glitch lasted only a few hours, from 3 am to 8:45 am, but it is estimated that players left about US$1400 in winnings unclaimed.

While the lottery didn’t specify technical details about the glitch, it confirmed that it lasted almost six hours, and made 172 winning Keno tickets get false readings from scanners, Lottery Post informed. According to the Lottery, the tickets were misled by the lottery’s equipment.

Farshad Allahdadi, the Lottery’s director of gaming, said that the technical contractors worked quickly to diagnose the problem and fix it. “But we also operate computer-run games and they can sometimes crash,” he said. “We’re doing the best we can,” Allahdadi said. “But given that it’s an anonymous, cash-based game, it’s proven difficult.”