NEW YORK (Reuters) - A glitch in a newspaper contest turned what appeared to be $100,000 winners into losers and led hundreds of angry game-players to protest outside the office of New York's DailyNews newspaper on Monday.

　　The "Scratch and Match" contest page in the newspaper's Saturday edition erroneously included the number 13 in a series of 10 numbers, instead of the number 12 as intended. The "wrong" number triggered a rash of winning scratch card tickets in a contest that is set up to pay out $222,500 a week in prizes, which ranging from $25 to $100,000.

　　People who thought they had won, but hadn't, lined up outside the newspaper's Manhattan offices on Monday demanding their money. The paper published an apology on Sunday and again on Monday, blaming the company that runs the contest for the daily, D.L. Blair, Inc., one of the largest US sweepstakes companies. DailyNews president Les Goodstein said contest players with cards they had thought were winners were eligible to enter a lottery-type contest to divide the available prize money, as spelled out in contest rules in the event of errors.