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Sometimes life - and the lottery - doesn't always go to plan. This viewer video of the Pennsylvania Lottery live tv draw in January 2015 was a disaster from start to finish.
One comment noted: "I watched this on WPVI in Philly. I was shocked. I don't recall any problems involving 2 or more machines in all my years watching the PA Lottery TV drawings."
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Read MoreThis is a rare look behind the scenes at the Florida Powerball lottery headquarters. You will get to see the actual vault in this 2012 CBS doco and see where the draw machines are kept and their security operation that makes Powerball one of the safest lottery draws available. Even the lottery balls in each draw are chosen randomly to reduce any possibility of error.
Jose Espinosa co-owns the West Harlem Deli in New York City where one of the two Powerball tickets were sold. PHOTO: PIX11
Two lucky Powerball players woke up richer on Sunday morning. They would each receive $198.1 million if they chose the cash option in the $750 Million US Powerball, announced the lottery organization.
Read MoreWith less than 3 days to the next draw on Saturday, and millions of losing Mega Millions players looking for another opportunity, Powerball could be the next billion dollar fortune-maker.
UPDATE: The US Powerball hit $750 million in a sudden jump from the $620M it has previously sat for the last several days. It has now been stable at $750M which will likely be the final figure.
A single winner has grabbed the record-breaking Mega Millions $1.6 Billion jackpot prize, and the world is on the edge of their seat to find out who it could be.
Read MoreWatch as this draw problem unfolds - and then gets worse. "We have detected a malfunction," said the narrator of this live Pennsylvania Lottery draw in 2015. One person commented, "I was shocked. I don't recall any problems involving 2 or more machines in all my years watching the PA Lottery TV drawings."
On a June 2011 draw, one of the South Carolina Education Lottery draws went crazy as the balls started flying out of a draw tube. The draw was cancelled and redrawn later.
Luckily errors in lottery draws are uncommon. The ones shown here didn't caused any problems for winners.
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