Machines are machines and although our current society practically depends on computer and their software, there is always a chance that they might have bugs or glitches albeit small. Powerball lottery

A brief malfunction by the Virginia Lottery’s gaming system will bring benefits to work to Fast Play game players. Lottery officials announced on January 24 a special promotion, “Fast Play February,” in which players can enter non-winning tickets from any Fast Play game for a chance to win a $25 American Express gift card. A total of 300 gift cards will be awarded in the March 6 drawing. Tickets must be purchased during February to qualify. Mega lottery

The Virginia Lottery currently offers five Fast Play games, including 3 Card Bingo, Blackjack, Bonus Bingo, Dodgeball and Find the 9’s. The games are designed to offer the excitement of a t game generated by a terminal, the special feature of these games is that instead of having to wait for a drawing, players can play and find out immediately if they won.

On December 24, the Virginia Lottery’s gaming system had a glitch and was reported to have malfunctioned for approximately nine hours. During that time some Fast Play tickets were incorrectly read by terminals as losing tickets, when in fact they were winners. The Lottery has announced that up to 294 winning tickets could have been misread during that time, totaling an estimated $1,467 in prizes. The average prize for the misread tickets was $5.

During this period only the Fast Play games were affected. Vendors and players reported this malfunction and made the Lottery aware of this peculiar event.

So, in order to make amends with the public, Lottery officials have made public their goodwill to make things better to all of those players who were affected. The problem is, most of the winners that were misread as losers might have already discarded their tickets so there is no way to know who they are or that they might be aware that they held a winning ticket. For this reason the Lottery is offering the Fast Play February Second Chance Sweepstakes with $7,500 in gift card giveaways.

The deadlines are March 2 for mail-in entries and March 5 for entries at the Lottery web site. If a player has a ticket that was misread, and by any chance it is still in the possession of the winner, it is still valid and can be redeemed for the stated prize.