On Saturday May 29, 2021, 17 million euros were at stake during the Loto draw.
In Luneray, in Normandy, two friends who have known each other for over forty-five years decided to play their grid together.
They won 8.5 million euros, reports
Paris Normandie.
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“
We had a hard time believing our eyes
, exclaim the winners, questioned by the Norman media.
We had won the jackpot!
The friends were playing a "
flash grid
" together for the first time
, which allows random numbers to be generated.
The numbers that come out are 4, 9, 32, 36, 44 and 3 as a lucky number.
They validate it on Saturday May 29 at the Maison de la presse in Luneray.
On Monday July 12, 2021, almost a month and a half later, the managers of the establishment received a call from La Française des Jeux: two of their customers won the jackpot thanks to a grid validated in their Press House.
The two Norman winners will share their winnings with another winner, a family from Aude, who validated their ticket in Carcassonne.
“
Even in our wildest dreams, we could not have imagined such luck!
», Conclude the two winners who will be able to realize their respective projects.
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In 2020, 30 Loto jackpots (winnings of two million euros and more) were recorded in France, including 7 via the Internet. It was in 2020 that 3 of the 5 biggest jackpots ever won on the Internet were won: € 20,000,000, € 17,000,000 and € 16,000,000, explains La Française des jeux. The luckiest French region in 2020? This is the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, where four players won the Loto jackpot, i.e. more than 2 million euros.