Close to 50,000 people in Norway thought that they had hit it big in a lottery last week. But what seemed like a stroke of luck didn’t hold: Messages about their winnings had been sent by ...

Norway’s national lottery apologizes after players were mistakenly told that they had won life-changing sums due to coding error ...

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

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

Norwegian-owned gambling company Norsk Tipping has said a ‘manual error’ resulted in customers being wrongly informed that they had won ‘excessively high prizes’.

When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles.

An investigation is underway after Norway’s state lottery (Norsk Tipping) sent out congratulory notices to around 47,000 Norwegians late last week, telling them they’d won millions of kroner. They ...

That’s also the case with Eurojackpot, which currently gives people in close to 20 countries in (you guessed it) Europe the opportunity to get a share of a prize pool that starts at €10,000,000 ...