How The Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets
As word got out on Christmas Day about the sudden proliferation of winning tickets, a frenzy reportedly ensued. The state has suspended sales and validations of the game while it investigates.
The South Carolina lottery game is called Holiday Cash Add-A-Play, and the rules are pretty simple: Get three Christmas tree symbols in any vertical, horizontal or diagonal line, and you win a prize.
Monday was Christmas, and some folks in the Palmetto State were feeling jolly.
"I don't play the lottery that much," Nicole Coggins of Liberty, S.C., local NBC affiliate WYFF. "Every once in a
