Thousands of Norwegian lottery players experienced an emotional whiplash weekend after state-owned Norsk Tipping mistakenly told them they had won millions—only to retract the claims hours later, triggering a crisis that cost the chief executive her position.
The debacle unfolded on 27 June when customers across Norway received emails declaring they had won 'excessively high prizes.' Within hours, the company admitted a manual conversion error had multiplied Euro cent-based winnings by 100 instead of dividing them, transforming modest prizes into phantom jackpots worth millions.
