Four hundred and nineteen lottery players joined an existing lawsuit filed by 520 plaintiffs against GTECH Corporation.\u00a0 In their First Amended Petition filed on January 23rd<\/sup>, the lottery players sued to collect their winnings from the controversial Texas Lottery’s Fun 5\u2019s scratch-off game. \u00a0The suit alleges that GTECH programmed its computers to reject winning tickets as losers even though the tickets met all the requirements of being winning tickets under the official regulations for the Fun 5\u2019s game.<\/p>\n The dispute revolves around Game 5 of the Fun 5\u2019s game. \u00a0The instructions on the ticket read as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cReveal three \u201c5\u201d symbols in any one row, column or diagonal, win PRIZE in PRIZE box. \u00a0Reveal a Money Bag \u201c \u201d symbol in the 5X BOX, win 5 times that PRIZE.\u201d<\/p>\n The official regulations for the Fun 5\u2019s game read as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cGAME 5: If a player reveals three \u201c5\u201d Play Symbols in any one row, column (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four hundred and nineteen lottery players joined an existing lawsuit filed by 520 plaintiffs against GTECH Corporation.\u00a0 In their First Amended Petition filed on January 23rd, the lottery players sued to collect their winnings from the controversial Texas Lottery’s Fun…<\/span><\/p>\n