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Gambler Wins...$42.9 million (or -20 Cents or $2.25); is Offered Steak Dinner

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 02 2016, @04:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-just-won-the-Jack-Not...-oh-wait dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A Queens gambler thought she hit it big until managers at the Resorts World Casino said her $43 million slot machine win was a technical glitch — and tried to pay her off with a steak dinner. Katrina Bookman was already thinking about what she would do with all that money back in August as she took a selfie beside the slot machine that said: Printing Cash Ticket. $42,949,672.76.

[...] "Upon being notified of the situation, casino personnel were able to determine that the figure displayed on the penny slot was the result of an obvious malfunction - a fact later confirmed by the New York State Gaming Commission," a Resorts statement said. "Machine malfunctions are rare, and we would like to extend our apologies to Ms. Bookman for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Money from the casino, like state lottery proceeds, help grow the state's educaton[sic] fund. Officials said payout maximums are put in place to protect that money.

Although the machine's screen displayed the multimillion-dollar jackpot, the printed ticket showed $2.25.

Is it a coincidence that 2^32=4294967296? Full story at NY Daily News.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:02PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:02PM (#421811) Journal

    Most machines also indicate their maximum payout, somewhere on the face or in the info panel.

    So then lets make it worth the casino and game machine makers trouble to prevent these malfunction issues.
    Legislate a default award set to some exorbitantly high payout required under state law any time the casino invokes the Malfunction Excuse. I'd suggest 50% of the highest possible payout that machine could ever deliver.

    These failures would suddenly disappear over night.

    Somewhere I read that the slot machine software is some of the worst software in the world for code quality. Absolute crap.

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  • (Score: 2) by Desler on Wednesday November 02 2016, @09:46PM

    by Desler (880) on Wednesday November 02 2016, @09:46PM (#421847)

    These failures would suddenly disappear over night.

    No they wouldn't.

    Somewhere I read that the slot machine software is some of the worst software in the world for code quality. Absolute crap.

    Some is, some isn't. The issue with gaming machine platforms is just the high amount of complexity. Especially when you have to have software that has to handle both class II and class III type machines.