You have bought your regular lottery ticket. You don’t expect ever to win big, but it helps you to dream. If only…
Your phone buzzes and you check the message. It is from the state owned lottery provider. It is a notification of a win.
“Congratulations! You have won 100,000,000 Yen!”
100 million Yen! You can’t believe it. Miracles do happen. You could buy a house, a sports car, a yacht.
Hold on a second, there is another message coming through on your phone.
“The state lottery provider would like to offer its sincere apologies for sending a message to you in error. Due to a technical fault, the prize money sent in our last communication was inaccurate. You have in fact won 10,000 Yen. Congratulations!”
Something like this actually happened in Norway this week. The Norwegian state owned lottery provider allows Norwegians to buy tickets for the Euro Jackpot lottery, which is based in Germany. So the prize money to be provided to Norwegian winners has to be converted from Euro Cents into Norwegian Kroner. The prize money was supposed to have been divided by 100, but was accidentally instead multiplied by 100. So the amount that prize winners actually got was 10,000 times smaller than the amount they were told that they were going to get.
Scrap the purchase of a house, sports car and yacht. I think I need a 10,000 Yen bottle of whisky instead. It helps me to dream…
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