Par Briac Trébert
Published on Dec 20, 23 at 8:46 p.m. See my news Follow News
He will receive the colossal sum at the start of 2024. The biggest winner in the history ofEuroMillions is an Austrian. He won the record jackpot of 240 million euros on Friday December 8, 2023 by playing the combination: 17, 30, 42, 48, 50 as well as the two lucky stars, 4 and 8.
This winner, a man, had validated 20 grids on the same Friday morning on the Win2day website, which allows you to bet on several cash games, in Austria. He had chosen the numbers and stars for these 20 EuroMillions grids himself, without using the flash system. And it was the last one that allowed him to win, they have since said the country’s media.
“The first hour was tough on the blood pressure”
Notified by emailwith a quick message (“Congratulations! You have won in rank 1, amount: 240,000,000 euros”), the winner contacted the customer service of the Austrian lottery during the weekend.
The first hour as a winner was rough on the blood pressure. But very quickly it was possible for me to think about the future in a structured way.
The Austrian winner
His age, location and identity have not been filtered.
This astronomical amount of 240 million euros will be transferred in one go to his bank account, which he had previously informed by validating his grids. However, he will have to wait the regulatory deadline of four weeks, i.e. until Saturday January 6, 2024.
A quarter of the winners in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
And Austria definitely did well during this year 2023, because other jackpots fell there: on August 1, the sum of 72,144,196 euros was won and on September 15, according to Tirage-gagnant.com, 54,951,738 euros (a sum shared with a player from the United Kingdom).
In 2023, several more EuroMillions players have become multimillionaires in the European lottery. On November 28, a player from Luxembourg won the sum of 83 million euros, the biggest gain in the country’s history.
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On March 7, the sum of 144,966,361 euros was pocketed in Belgium. The winner had played 11, 13, 24, 35, 50 and stars 6 and 11.
On Friday June 2, a jackpot of 130 million euros was pocketed in the United Kingdom (with 3, 12, 15, 25, 43, and stars 10 and 11). In Switzerland, 68,825,114 euros were won on (Friday) January 13.
And in France ?
Among the French, three players won more than 100 million euros in EuroMillions in this year 2023. The French winnings record for this year 2023 stands at 130 million euros during the September 29 draw for a couple of Hauts-de-Seine. They had played at the tobacco bar “Le Fontenoy” in Levallois-Perret.
After “difficult years”, there is no question for them of buying watches, jewelry or a yacht: the winners plan to “enjoy early retirement, travel around the world”, help their loved ones and causes that are important to them at heart, they explained, according to the site Tirage-gagnant.com.
102,242,065 euros is the sum (also won in 2023) by a forty-year-old during the EuroMillions draw on Friday February 24, according to the French Games. His winning ticket was validated in the gallery of the Arçonnay shopping center, in Sarthe. The winning combination that day? 7, 23, 34, 42, 48, stars 1 and 3.
The biggest win won in Tahiti
On September 1, it’s a Breton player who won 109,268,140 euros! In Larmor-Plage (Morbihan), this occasional player, who also wishes to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons), had validated her EuroMillions grid with the flash system. The winning combination that allowed him to win? 4, 5, 35, 37, 43, and stars 5 and 6.
Note that during the draw on May 5, 2023, 159,123,225 euros were divided into three. Three winners, including a Frenchman, shared this jackpot and therefore received more than 50 million euros each.
The biggest jackpot in the history of the European lottery in France dates back to October 15, 2021: 220 million euros won in Tahiti by a young Polynesian who was playing for the first time.
21, 34 and 35, the most drawn numbers
Nine European countries participate in EuroMillions: France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
According to statistics, the chances of winning a EuroMillions jackpot are onlyone in more than 139 million. For those who scrutinize the results, you will also discover on these tables which take into account all the draws since February 4, 2020 that 21, 34 and 35 are the numbers which have been drawn the most.
Five multimillionaires in the Loto in 2023 in France
And in this year 2023, French people were also multi-millionaires while playing the Loto! They checked six numbers: five numbers on a grid of 49 numbers and a lucky number on a grid of ten numbers.
For this game, the minimum jackpot is two million euros. If it is not won on the day of the drawing, the jackpot increases by 1 million euros. The list of biggest winners since 1976 changes every year. Every year, very big winners dethrone previous winnings and become among the luckiest French people in the history of the national lottery.
18 million euros won in a Leclerc d’Argentan center
The current record for Loto winnings stands at 30 million euroswon on December 4, 2021 by a Breton player in Orgères in Ille-et-Vilaine.
This year 2023, sums of 18 million euros were won in Argentan (Orne) on April 26 (the winner had played at Colbert, at the E.Leclerc shopping center, a Loto faithful, which validated the same grid every weeks for more than ten years) and in Colmar (Haut-Rhin), on September 16 (an altruistic siblings who had announced that they wanted to donate part of their winnings to associations).
On November 15, the Loto draw saw a lucky Parisian win the jackpot of 15 million euros by finding the following winning numbers: 2, 7, 16, 22, 30 and lucky number 1.
On February 18, 2023, 15 million euros were won in Château-Gontier (Mayenne). actu.fr also told the story of this lottery winner, on Friday October 13, the last “Friday the 13th” of the year 2023, who wanted to give a gold necklace to his dog!
For those who are still hoping, note the next edition of the big Christmas Lotto this Sunday, December 24, 2023 with a jackpot of 15 million euros inevitably won or shared.
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