It took almost a week for him to appear as rumors about his identity grew and he didn’t even know he was a new millionaire. Life can be wonderful, as Andrés Montes would say and now the owner of the ticket must think about the tickets in hand rewarded with 1.1 million euros with which he distributed the print of La Primitiva in the Valencian town of Ontinyent.
“Probably the biggest news we’ve given you in a long time, check your tickets,” Lottery Administration No. 2 announced. The design of Ontinyentwho had been looking since last Friday for the winner with the correct first category numbers and who had won 1,178,328.47 euros.
It was only this Wednesday that the new millionaire of the Valencian city addressed the administration, without even foreseeing or imagining what was going to happen. From a religious point of view, this regular elderly customer and “usually” goes to the store to buy tickets for various raffles and always entrusts his luck to his lucky workers, without checking it with his mobile phone or watching television or the old teletext.
“The owner of the million has already appeared“, rejoiced the owners of the lottery center, who confirmed that they had been “lucky” to announce the good news to him at the window.I like that you guys are watching it“, he joked after learning he had won more than a million euros with La Primitiva in a “great moment” that none of the participants will be able to forget.
“Thank you to all of you who came to congratulate us on giving this award. It was an incredible morning and we hope that many more awards will follow you,” celebrated Patricia, one of the administrative managers.
The winning combination of the September 5th draw consisted of: numbers 5, 9, 12, 16, 22 and 39while the complementary number was 4, the refund number was 8 and the Joker was 3724184, and the product of the draw amounted to 10,851,359.00 euros. As there were no successful Special Category tickets (6 hits + Refund), the jackpot generated was put into play, amounting to more than eight million euros.
