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.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday November 02 2016, @10:15PM
Well, it's not a "claim" of malfunction as such. The ticket printed at the time by the machine didn't match the jackpot displayed, so that's a malfunction regardless of who claims what.
Winning numbers are allocated to areas by population? Winning numbers are "allocated?"
Winning powerball numbers are chosen using spinning drums of freaking ping pong balls that are not cognizant of geography or anything else, much less any perceived distribution of ticket purchases. They are ping pong balls being blown from an agitated drum. It's simply not possible to do what you are claiming here with that sort of hardware to work with.