Win a huge jackpot? Maybe not!

A new casino in Pennsylvania had a slot machine tell a player that he had won $102,000, supposedly “the big jackpot” of the day. Various casino staff came up and congratulated him, until someone else came over and offered him two free meal coupons, saying that the jackpot message (which even stated his name) was a software glitch on their internal computer system, and was due to some internal testing that never should have reached the actual machine.

What a rollercoaster ride that would be! Should the casino have paid the supposed winner anyway? It would certainly help for PR, but it -was- a new casino so they may not have wanted to throw money away, so to speak. Assuming that it was indeed a real glitch.

Source: Tech Dirt