You won $100,000! Whoops, never mind (lol)
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You won $100,000! Whoops, never mind (lol)
Originally Posted by CNN
Thousands thought they won big in the Daily News' scratch-off game, until the correction ran.
March 21, 2005: 4:08 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Thousands of New Yorkers thought they had won up to $100,000 over the weekend in the New York Daily News Scratch 'n' Match game -- until the newspaper ran a correction.
While the News ran a notice touting a "special announcement" on the front page of Monday editions, readers didn't know about the correction until they opened the paper. Stories about the flap ran in rival papers including Newsday and the New York Times.
The contest started like any other of the newspaper's Scratch games: over the weekend, the News contained eight cards with scratch-off boxes. Every day, the newspaper prints numbers indicating which boxes to scratch off. Getting the right combination would yield prizes from $25 to $100,000.
This weekend, when the paper directed players to scratch off a wrong number on their game cards, many players were mistakenly led to believe that they had won.
Eileen Murphy, a Daily News spokeswoman, said the company that administers the game, D. L. Blair of Garden City, N.Y., sent the wrong number to the newspaper for publication.
"We're as upset as our readers and we're determined to get to the bottom of how this happened," she said in a statement.
Readers were told to submit what they believed to be their winning tickets for a random drawing in the future. But more prizes than intended cannot be handed out, according to the Daily News.
D. L. Blair apologized for the error in a statement, but the company could not be reached for comment.
March 21, 2005: 4:08 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Thousands of New Yorkers thought they had won up to $100,000 over the weekend in the New York Daily News Scratch 'n' Match game -- until the newspaper ran a correction.
While the News ran a notice touting a "special announcement" on the front page of Monday editions, readers didn't know about the correction until they opened the paper. Stories about the flap ran in rival papers including Newsday and the New York Times.
The contest started like any other of the newspaper's Scratch games: over the weekend, the News contained eight cards with scratch-off boxes. Every day, the newspaper prints numbers indicating which boxes to scratch off. Getting the right combination would yield prizes from $25 to $100,000.
This weekend, when the paper directed players to scratch off a wrong number on their game cards, many players were mistakenly led to believe that they had won.
Eileen Murphy, a Daily News spokeswoman, said the company that administers the game, D. L. Blair of Garden City, N.Y., sent the wrong number to the newspaper for publication.
"We're as upset as our readers and we're determined to get to the bottom of how this happened," she said in a statement.
Readers were told to submit what they believed to be their winning tickets for a random drawing in the future. But more prizes than intended cannot be handed out, according to the Daily News.
D. L. Blair apologized for the error in a statement, but the company could not be reached for comment.
that's pretty jacked up..
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From: Bethlehem PA
yeah .......ok....Wrong number alright.
Maybe they didnt expect all these people to win...
I wonder if they will have to pay. After all they published the "wrong " number.
How do they know it was the wrong number?
Maybe they didnt expect all these people to win...
I wonder if they will have to pay. After all they published the "wrong " number.
How do they know it was the wrong number?
snitches get stitches
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From: Portland, OR
Originally Posted by BonzoAPD
This is a huge thing here in NY. People flipping out like whoa
If it had happened to just one person, the newspaper would probably be forced to pay up, but I think with this many people, they'd go bankrupt :chuckles: