The machine involved has been in service for three years and hadits software updated last year, officials said. Olynik said American experts areinvestigating to see whether there are software errors. 'This type of malfunction is very rare and it's unfortunate that the machine was being played and it malfunctioned like it did,' said Susan Olynik, a vice-president with the corporation. It says nickel machines normally don't pay out more than $3,000. says that in some cases, a machine's software can make serious errors. Weinstein says messages on the machine indicated that matching all five numbers would pay out the equivalent of more thanfour million nickels.īut the Manitoba Lotteries Corp. The two men, who have asked not to be identified, were playing a nickel machine that requires matching a small set of numbers with another group of numbers randomly generated by the machine's software. 'We don't have results of independent testing.'

'It's our position that it's not a mistake that my clients should be paying for, if it was a mistake,' lawyer Josh Weinstein told CBC Radio on Tuesday. The machine said the win was worth a jackpot of $209,716.40. The men were playing a computerized version of Keno last week when they matched all five numbers on the screen.

Two men from Manitoba have hired a lawyer and are threatening legal action after a Winnipeg casino refused to pay out more than $209,000 in slot-machine winnings.

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