Matthijs from Grave won 244,000 euros in Postcode Lottery Miljoenenjacht on Sunday evening. He let several bids for his golden briefcase pass him by and finally pressed the red button at the amount of more than two hundred thousand euros. Not yet knowing what amount of money was actually in his own briefcase.
Matthijs (30) is a gardener in daily life, a total of fifty people from Grave were allowed to attend the game show for a chance to win a place in the final. He managed to outplay all candidates and eventually ended up at the desk next to Linda de Mol. He chose a suitcase with number eight on it.
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Matthijs’ wife Sabrina was in the room for support and regularly had to squeeze her buttocks when her husband took another chance. Because daredevil Matthijs turned out not to be afraid. The fictitious bank was the first to make an offer of 66,000 euros for his briefcase, and then 64,000 euros. The amount then rose to 139,000 euros, which Matthijs could not yet enjoy. After that, the offer dropped to 134,000 euros.
He didn’t go along with that either, which meant he had to open two more suitcases. At that time, in addition to some small amounts of money, he still had two large amounts left: 500,000 euros and 2 million. In the end, his gamble resulted in an offer of 244,000 euros in exchange for his suitcase number eight. He gave the red button a beating and confetti fell, as is tradition.
Matthijs turned out to have sold his suitcase too early. Because his own chosen suitcase contained 2 million euros. “But I think I can also do fun things with this,” he responded soberly. He will use the money for an extension to his house and he would like to travel with his wife and children.
On Sunday evening, the couple rented a pub in Grave to watch the episode of Miljoenenjacht with friends.
How does the ‘Golden Suitcase Game’ work?
In the game show, the contestant chooses one suitcase for himself from 26 briefcases. After that, the candidate has to open a few of the 25 remaining suitcases in each round, after which ‘the bank’ negotiates with him for the value of his chosen suitcase.
As long as the suitcases with the highest amounts are still in play, there is a chance that the candidate himself has a suitcase with such a high amount of money. And will the bank make him an increasingly better offer for his suitcase.
If the candidate rejects the bank’s offer, he must open a number of suitcases again in the next round to get a new offer. Until the end, the question is: what amount of money is in the suitcase chosen by the candidate?
