Last weekend, a million dollar lottery prize once again gave someone reason to celebrate in Hungary’s best-known lottery game: a lucky person won HUF 6,613,905,020 in the five-lotto. This year, this is already the third hit, the last example of which was a quarter of a century ago. According to the announcement of Szerencsejáték Zrt., it is also rare that there are two top prizes in one year, the last time a lucky person won HUF 6.5 billion.
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A billion lottery prize, they can change their lives with a single ticket
In the case of prizes exceeding 300 million a Srencsejáték Zrt. maintains a separate big-winner line. When the winning player signs in by phone, the lottery company’s employee is responsible for making sure, based on the ticket data, that he is really talking to the winner. After that, the personal meeting can take place, where the validity of the original slip is checked. If the identification is successful and the personal data also match, the prize payment process can begin, during which the winner will receive the winning amount by bank transfer.
According to the anonymous questionnaires filled out by the former big winners when they claimed the prize, they would finance real estate renovations or real estate purchases, travel, car purchases, or charities with their lottery winnings. While researching the interesting lottery winner stories, I read about a company at work who played with around 200 tickets, while Fortuna smiled at them and the team of twelve won nearly HUF 50 million each.
Not long ago, there was also a documentary film on the subject entitled Guests of Fortuna, which supports the cliché that money doesn’t make you happy, seemingly through the story of the couple in the film. A book was also made from the defining experience of a lottery prize. It is interesting for everyone, both those who play the lottery and those who do not how it felt to start a new life with the winning ticket in hand. What fantastic purchases, vicissitudes, surprises and what personal tragedy changed the lives of the author of the book “He Won the Lottery” and his wife.
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2024-10-21 17:55:00