In the Aude, a lucky player has just transformed a last minute attempt into a brilliant victory for the scratch game Golden ticket, a € 5 ticket. By buying several tickets, it was the latest that brought him the maximum gain of € 500,000. He became one of the few big winners of this game launched by the FDJ in 2024.
🔔 The main thing to remember on the winner at € 500,000 in the gold ticket in Narbonne
- ✅ A Narbonne player won the maximum gain of € 500,000 with a gold ticket Bought tobacco from Place des Pyrénées.
- ✅ He had bought several tickets ; The latest turned out to be a winner, thanks to the number 26.
- ✅ The winner, who remained anonymous, plans to shelter his relativesbuy a property and help a loved one.
- ✅ The gold ticket offers 1 chance in 4.5 million earning € 500,000which makes this gain exceptional.
- ✅ This is one of the only two lots at € 500,000 available On all the tickets issued by the FDJ (for an edition of 9 million tickets).
Half a million euros earned in Narbonne thanks to a final ticket
Monday, July 7, 2025 will remain engraved in the tobacco memories of Place des Pyrénéesin Narbonne. That day, a loyal customer, accustomed to occasionally playing the scratch games, decide to buy several Tickets d’Orthe novelty of the Illiko range of the FDJ in January 2024.
If the first tickets prove to be losers, it is the very last, the sixth, which will tip its daily life. By discovering the winning figure 26, he realizes that he has just pocketed the maximum gain of € 500,000.
📣“Before rejoicing, I asked for confirmation of my gain for fear that my eyes play a tour”would have entrusted the winner to the FDJ, according to the tobacconist Christine Chaize to the Our colleagues from the dispatch.
Clear and altruistic projects for the future
Very moved, this Narbonnais immediately knew how he was going to use this considerable sum. His priorities are clear: shelteracquire real estate, and help a loved one in need. A state of mind that marked the merchant:
📣 “He was not someone who was blazing, he is a discreet and very human person”.
Wishing to remain anonymous, the lucky winner did not give more details. However, he expressed his desire to continue to live simply, despite this unexpected luck.
Narbonne is not his first attempt, already in 2023, a player who had scratched a cash ticket won € 500,000, Read on independent.
Golden ticket: a game with very low probability but with high potential
Launched in early January 2024, the gold ticket is a scratch game at the unique price of 5 € by ticket. Its principle is simple: find one or more winning numbers, or fall on the symbole « OR » To pocket all the amounts present in the game area.
But get the jackpot of 500,000 € remains a real feat. THE winning reveals that only two tickets among 9 million tickets emitted make it possible to reach this amount. This means that a player has less than 1 in 4.5 million chance to get there. Suffice to say that this Narbonnais lived a extremely rare moment.
Below, find the full gains table of the Gold Ticket Game
| Name of lots | EURS GAINS |
|---|---|
| 2 | 500 000 |
| 4 | 10 000 |
| 10 | 1 000 |
| 200 | 500 |
| 3 000 | 200 |
| 12 300 | 150 |
| 15 000 | 100 |
| 30 000 | 80 |
| 45 100 | 50 |
| 65 000 | 30 |
| 120 000 | 25 |
| 120 000 | 20 |
| 300 000 | 15 |
| 340 000 | 10 |
| 1 300 000 | 5 |
A chance in 3.83 to win … but rarely the jackpot
According to official FDJ datathe gold ticket offers 1 in 3.83 luck to win a gain, whatever it is. But in 98 % of cases, this gain does not exceed € 100. Falling on One of the two € 500,000 tickets is therefore an absolute exception.
And yet, that’s what happened in Narbonne in early July. A story that makes all the regulars of the tobacconists dream … and which proves that sometimes everything can switch to a simple piece of € 5.
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