A state-owned gambling company apologized after telling players that they had won “erroneously high prizes.” It blamed the ...

Several thousand lottery players in Norway were mistakenly told they won more money than they actually did due to a ...

Lottery winners in Norway were mistakenly told last week that they had won more money than they actually did, Norsk Tipping ...

A Norwegian lottery company apologised to 47,000 crestfallen gamblers who were mistakenly told they had won huge sums in a ...

An error at Norway’s state-owned Norsk Tipping caused some people in the Scandinavian country to believe they had scored ...

Tonje Sagstuen, the CEO of Norway’s state-owned gambling operator, Norsk Tipping, has resigned following a serious, ...

Norway's state-owned gambling company Norsk Tipping mistakenly told "several thousand people" they had won "excessively high" ...

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

The incident stemmed from a manual coding error during the conversion of lottery winnings from euros to Norwegian kroner.

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

Imagine you're standing at a bottle depot with an empty pop can. You can get a dime back, or you can take a chance at winning ...