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Arizona Lottery sales and redemption resume

Arizona Lottery sales have resumed after officials say an update to install two new games caused the system to crash for more than a day.

The outage began Thursday and the ticketing system and prize-redemption capabilities were restored by midday Friday.

Scientific Games, which operates the state’s gaming system, suffered a crash.

The outage impacted all Arizona Lottery retailers preventing sales and redemptions.

Lottery ticket sales usually average between $3.5 and $3.9 million toward the end of the week.

Jill Ryan joined KJZZ in 2020 as a morning reporter, and she is currently a field correspondent and Morning Edition producer.