I am experiencing this too. The lottery came up in my calendar, but when the actually lottery day came around, it had vanished from the calendar and my sims never got a notification that the holiday started.
I am having a problem where my calendar and my weeks are out of sync. It is one day off I think. Old holidays pop up from yesterday. They are ones that I made myself, not the surprise holidays
All of the random holidays were working fine for me prior to the November patch, and now none of them are. Like others who have posted here, I see them on the calendar but they disappear at 6 am on the day they are scheduled to occur. No holiday interactions, nothing. I especially loved the Talk Like A Pirate Day. I would not say they were ever an essential part of my game-play, but I did enjoy the variety they brought. The four seasonal holidays and any custom holidays I have added still work fine, so I'm pretty happy about that.
The programmers at EA Maxis must have put a lot of time into creating these random holidays in the first place, so I really hope they can come up with a fix for this bug soon.
I've tested this on new, no-mod + cc-free game saves and even tried running the game repair option through Origin. The game repair did not fix it. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, I'd be happy to give them a try. If it's already posted somewhere on this site, please reply with a link. Thanks!
The November 25th patch did not appear to fix this bug for me. I just did a quick test on a cc and mod-free game save. The Lottery holiday was showing on my calendar but disappeared on the day it was supposed to occur, with no holiday interactions. I know the patch notes did not mention any fixes for this bug (assuming EA is even working on a fix in the first place) but I was kinda hoping it would anyway. Still keeping my fingers crossed for the next patch.
