Never a prize money so high in Italy. The record winning so far is in 2019: 209 million collected thanks to a coupon for just 2 euros detached in a bookshop in Lodi

How many are 200 million euros? More or less, the salary of the CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, ​​the value of a painting by Tamara de Lempicka auctioned three years ago or almost half of Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome. Someone, tonight, could be spoiled for choice: in fact, the extraction of the Superenalotto is foreseen which is giving away a jackpot of 210.5 million euros. The prize money of the Sisal competition thus breaks through the wall of 209 million, a record that has lasted for almost three years and is confirmed as the highest in the world. In May 2021, the buyer of a coupon in Montappone, 1600 inhabitants in the Marche region (and it is still unknown who is the winner), collected the 156 million sixth, while the previous record is up to 209 million and pennies collected in the ” August 2019 thanks to a coupon for just 2 euros detached in a bookshop in Lodi. With numbers chosen at random from the terminal.

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The winner withdrew the money two months later and, even here, there would be no clues as to his identity. “What I can say – says the owner of the betting shop – is that most of the people who hope to win count only on making their dreams come true, first of all the house. However, there are criteria of confidentiality that do not provide elements to be able to identify who is kissed by luck “. The jackpot is collected by guessing the six numbers of the basic combination: in its 25-year history, Superenalotto has distributed a total of 124, including 177 million in Lazio, in 2010 and 163 in Calabria in 2016. The average cost of each single bet is € 3.30 and the last five jackpots have been collected by wagering a total of only € 14.

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