{"id":1441758,"date":"2023-12-02T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1441758"},"modified":"2023-12-02T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T08:30:00","slug":"iowa-lottery-mistakenly-posts-wrong-powerball-numbers-for-7-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/iowa-lottery-mistakenly-posts-wrong-powerball-numbers-for-7-hours\/1441758\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Lottery Mistakenly Posts Wrong Powerball Numbers For 7 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Iowa Lottery Mistakenly Posts Wrong Powerball Numbers For 7 Hours<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In what can only be described as a nightmare scenario, Powerball losers in the state of Iowa mistakenly thought they were winners for about seven hours this week.<\/p>\n<p>The anomaly took place after a &#8220;human reporting error&#8221; caused the wrong numbers to be posted for last Monday&#8217;s drawing. The Iowa Lottery&#8217;s website posted the wrong numbers at about 12:30am Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>No one corrected the error until about 7:15am the next morning, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iowa-lottery-posted-wrong-powerball-numbers-but-temporary-winners-get-to-keep-the-money\/\">report from CBS News<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/powerball.jpg?itok=zlaKxRwa\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe at the Iowa Lottery sincerely apologize for the interruption,\u201d a lottery official commented, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/30\/us\/iowa-lottery-numbers.html\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Times wrote that following the lottery draw, two individuals at different sites input the winning numbers into the state&#8217;s lottery system. This system is linked to all lottery terminals and self-service kiosks across the state. However, officials noted that some of the numbers were mistakenly entered.<\/p>\n<p>The lottery said that the mistaken numbers would triggered payouts between $4 and $200, but didn&#8217;t specify how many winners there were. They also said that anyone who cashed their ticket within the 7 hour window will get to keep their money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The total Powerball Jackpot for that Monday was estimated at $355 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Lottery worked until 3:30pm on Tuesday to fix the error by correcting its system, the report said. After the numbers were corrected, 3998 people had won prices ranging from $4 to $200.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 12\/01\/2023 &#8211; 22:30<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/iowa-lottery-mistakenly-posts-wrong-powerball-numbers-7-hours\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/iowa-lottery-mistakenly-posts-wrong-powerball-numbers-7-hours<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Lottery Mistakenly Posts Wrong Powerball Numbers For 7 Hours In what can only be described as a nightmare scenario, Powerball losers in the state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-634a","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}