PHOENIX — You'll have to hold on to that winning Arizona Lottery ticket a little longer if you were planning to cash it out. That's because Arizona Lottery officials halted all sales and prize redemptions Thursday, and continued into part of Friday.
Lottery officials say their operating partner, Scientific Games, experienced an outage Thursday morning that remains unresolved.
Scientific Games believes the outage was caused by a system update to install two new lottery games Thursday, which caused the system to crash.
Lottery officials announced Friday afternoon that players are able to purchase lottery tickets again, but people will have to continue to wait if they win any prize.
It's not known when prize redemption will be available again.
The Arizona Lottery apologizes to players for the inconvenience.
