A message on your smartphone. The news immediately spread to the family and then a cold shower. Ole Fredrik Sveen53, told the British newspaper The Guardian what happened a few months ago when for a few minutes he thought he was the new winner of the lottery organized by Norsk Tipping. Ole thought he had turned himself into the winner of a 1.3 million Norwegian kroner prize. Let’s talk about 110,000 euros. The recording dates back to the end of June. Ole was on holiday in Greece: “My phone vibrated with a text message. It was from Norsk Tipping, the Norwegian lottery authority, telling me about my big Eurojackpot win.”
Ole was with his girlfriend. Reread the message. He wasn’t wrong. Call his mother. “”You deserve a bit of luck”, she replies. In short. The beginning of a phase of life with some more funds to invest. But after a few minutes Ole checks the ticket again: “I had only guessed two main numbers and a bonus number. My heart jumped into my throat. I could never have won that much money.”
The miscalculation that deluded Norway
What happened to Ole was happening to other players. In fact it was a small case which made it clear what the problems could be effects of a computer error. Recovering the chronicles of those days we read that the BBC he had spoken of thousands of people involved. In short there had been a conversion error between euros and Norwegian kroner. instead of dividing the amounts won by 100 they had been multiplyalways times 100. Tonje Sagstuendirector of Norsk Tipping, had decided to resign with a public apology: “I’m sorry that we disappointed so many players. I understand that people are angry with us now.”
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Ole Fredrik Sveen ultimately said he was lucky, at least, to have understood immediately of being faced with a mistake: “If I had known about it after the weekend I would have started wasting a lot of money.” And he adds: “Now I don’t play anymore. There’s a saying in Norway: either you’re lucky in love or you’re lucky in games.” Even in Italy.
