LOTTO. 9 million euros. This is the kitty that La Française des Jeux offers you to win for this new Loto draw, Wednesday August 17, 2022. The results will be available from 9 p.m. in this article.
[Mis à jour le 17 août 2022 à 18h00] While the summer holidays are already well underway, how about spending the rest of your life resting? It will be possible if you win 9 million euros. This is the sum offered by La Française des jeux for this new Loto draw. This Wednesday, August 17, 2022, you could well be the brand new winner of this game. To do this, nothing very complicated you must find the five correct numbers among 49 possible. You will also have to give the lucky number. So, grab your pens and head to the nearest tobacconist. You can also play online if you wish. No matter how you participate, know that, as the FDJ likes to remind you, 100% of the winners participated!
To win the 9 million euros in this lottery draw, you have to have “a little” luck. Indeed, you have 1,906,884 possible ways to tick the boxes of your Lotto grid. And that’s not counting the lucky number – you have to choose from ten numbers. So you have a one in 19,068,840 chance of hitting the jackpot. You can still win smaller sums by finding, for example, the five correct numbers on the grid. At that point, you are a rank 2 winner and have a 1 in 2,118,760 chance of making it. The fewer correct numbers you find, the lower your payout. Keep in mind that 17% of combinations are winning.
This Thursday, August 17, 2022, you can win 9 million euros. But, by the way, what is the biggest jackpot ever won at the Lotto? A player won, Saturday, December 4, a record gain of 30 million euros. This is the largest sum ever won since the launch of the game in 1976, according to the Française des jeux (FDJ). After 28 consecutive draws without a winner, the jackpot was won by a resident of Ille-et-Vilaine. The last record dates from September 11 with 26 million euros won. “In the whole history of Loto, this is the seventh time that the jackpot has exceeded the symbolic bar of 20 million euros,” said the FDJ.