Chloé and Antoine didn’t expect to win this amount of money, but it’s the worst gift they’ve ever received.
Scratch games are one of the gift ideas we like to give and receive at Christmas. Chloé and Antoine, a couple of young parents, took part in the game on New Year’s Eve, when Frédéric, a cousin, asked them to scratch the brand new game “Trésor Royal”. Chloé begins by reading the rules of the game: “Scratch the chests, if you discover three crown symbols, you win the sum of the winning box.it is specified on the ticket. She starts by randomly scratching the different boxes and already discovers two crowns. “Only one is missing!” she exclaims. Antoine takes over and discovers the third crown! “We won!” The amount at stake remains to be discovered… The couple continues, the adrenaline begins to build…
Overjoyed, Chloé can’t believe her eyes. She is about to reveal to the whole family that they have just won the sum of 20,000 euros! But Antoine does not react in the same way. Cautious about the consequences of such a gain and the risk of having to divide his loot in two, he makes it clear to Chloé to remain discreet…”He made people believe that the ticket was a loser and that I had seen it wrong, that the third crown was not one.“, she tells us. The young woman no longer really has a choice and follows her husband in his lie: the latter folds the ticket and slips it into his pocket. Her cousin did not try to check if the ticket was a winner or a loser… Christmas dinner continues with the family, as if nothing had happened.
But the couple has difficulty hiding their joy. “We spent a crazy evening making lots of plans, telling ourselves that we were going to go on vacation with the little one, put aside money to buy a house (and the 20,000 euros were just the right amount to be able to make a good contribution). .“, testifies Chloé. The couple even said that they would have to go to the Française des Jeux to collect a check, and that they would go there the day after Christmas. But this jubilation was not only short-lived. At the end of the evening, after the log and the departure of the guests, Antoine still takes the time to check the details of the ticket.It was too good to be true. On the back of the ticket, a QR code took me directly to Amazon, which sells this fake scratch game as a joke.”he says. “We were really fooled!” recognizes the couple, who do not understand why the cousin has not said anything until now.
In reality, the author of this prank probably expected to reveal the deception when Chloé and Antoine announced the amount of their winnings. But seeing Antoine discreetly put away his ticket and pretending to have lost, his cousin was taken by surprise and decided not to say anything either. A Christmas gift which created real false joy and unease, since the two cousins have not spoken about it since. “I think it’s dangerous not to reveal that it’s a joke! Who knows, we could have spent a lot of money on a post-holiday treat. It finally put a chill between us.” confides the young man.