Arizona Lottery officers and the corporate that operates the Arizona Lottery’s gaming system, Scientific Video games, introduced Friday afternoon that they’ve resumed full operations following an outage that started on Thursday morning.
On Friday, officers resumed ticket gross sales, however prize redemptions have been nonetheless halted. Now, all operations equivalent to recreation gross sales, prize redemptions and ticket checking have resumed.
“SG is working carefully with the Arizona Lottery officers to finish their inquiry into the foundation causes of the outage and to find out the subsequent steps to take to forestall any related future occurrences,” stated spokesperson for the Arizona Lottery, Cydeni Carter.
Arizonans have been out of luck earlier on Friday morning after Arizona Lottery officers stated they stopped all gross sales and prize redemptions of lottery tickets because of a system outage.
Scientific Video games skilled a system crash on Thursday that continued into Friday as a result of set up of two new lottery video games.
”We apologize to our lottery gamers, our retail companions and the lottery’s beneficiary neighborhood,” stated Arizona Lottery Govt Director Gregg Edgar. “Defending the integrity of the Lottery’s video games is paramount to our operations. We’re working diligently to deliver our video games again on-line as rapidly and reliably as attainable whereas maintaining our gamers, retailers and beneficiaries prime of thoughts.”
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Officers stated they’d honor wagers positioned previous to the outage. Drawings for lottery video games shall be posted to the Arizona Lottery’s web site as scheduled. Lottery tickets bought previous to the outage have been legitimate however couldn’t be redeemed till prize redemptions have been resumed.
Any tickets reaching the 180-day expiration window through the outage could be honored on the Arizona Lottery workplaces as soon as prize redemptions commenced.
Friday is the second drawing day of the week for Mega Tens of millions. The jackpot was at $20 million. Triple Twist, Fantasy 5 and Choose 3 are additionally drawn on Fridays.
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