He pockets 17 million euros by taking the wrong day in his grid

A Loto grid for Friday January 13 validated for Saturday 14. The end of jackpot hopes for most players! Yes, except for this forty-year-old who, by making the wrong date to validate his grid on the mobile application of the Française des jeux, won 17 million euros. The sixth biggest Loto win on the Internet, says the FDJ in a press release.

“Very occasional player”, this winner who wishes to remain anonymous, like many French people, wanted to try his luck on the last Friday 13 but he “made a mistake by checking the date of Saturday 14”, says the FDJ. “That day, I must have had a lucky star above my head”, smiles the lucky winner who a friend had predicted twenty years ago that one day he would win a sum of money important in the lottery. “At the time, I didn’t believe in his gifts at all, but now, a little more. »

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