Euromillions: “I believed I used to be dreaming”… he enters random numbers on his damaged telephone and his pockets… 166 million euros!

Jackpot for a pair from Boulogne, within the Hauts-de-Seine: Tuesday April 30, a person and his associate, married for 30 years, gained greater than 166 million euros on the Web, the 4th greatest win a- ever in France, welcomes the Française des Jeux in a press launch.

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“FDJ awarded the sum of 166,790,050 euros to the couple who gained, on the Web, the Euromillions jackpot on Tuesday 30 April.

“They have been the one ones I might pick on my display screen”

Tuesday April 30, “the couple have been in two totally different cities. The person remembered ten minutes earlier than the tip of the regulation time that he forgot to fill a grid for the Euromillions draw which contained an enormous jackpot,” says Video games of France. Speeding to play, the person, whose telephone is damaged, “picked the numbers as a result of they have been the one ones I might decide on my display screen […] Above all, I wished to show my grid earlier than the tip of the administration interval.”

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The subsequent morning, the fortunate winner thinks it is faux. “I believed I used to be dreaming; I needed to look time and again. I requested my son who was with me so we might examine collectively.” As for his associate, “I made her sit down and requested her: ‘Does the Française des Jeux imply something to you? There’s a winner in our city… It’s us. there'”, he nonetheless remembers.

Now, the couple – who need to stay nameless – have many plans: journey, “possibly purchase a home by the ocean”, however above all… “altering telephones”!