“La Française des Jeux contacted me on 1is april. I thought it was a customer who made me an April Fool, I didn’t want to believe it. I asked them to send me a writing to formalize, “smiles this Friday, May 2, 2025 Ludovic Hoofd, manager of the Place Bar, in Castets (Landes), for almost fourteen years.
It was in his establishment that a Euromillions ticket – My Million was validated, which proved to be a winner in the Valentine’s Day draw on February 14, 2025. But the manager only learned it once the gain removed.
Who is the lucky winner? The manager of the Place bar, who has a customer of regulars but also passing through this village located near the highway and the Landes coast, says he ignore his identity. “I understand very well that we want to keep anonymity,” adds Ludovic Hoofd.
According to information collected in early May with the French Games (FDJ), the person who validated the winning ticket is a woman, “a faithful Euromillions player for many years”. When she realized that “her Euromillions code – My Million had been drawn on the day of the feast of lovers”, she remained “confused”, traces the French games.
Castets, blessed land?
Solicited by “Sud Ouest”, the FDJ communications department shares the testimony of this winner of one million euros: “I was amazed by this announcement. My husband was waiting for me on a bench in the sun. I went to see him and I announced to him with a smile on his lips: ” Stay sitting, something incredible happens to us. »»
-“While waiting for his arrival on the premises of the FDJ, this couple of neomillionaire decided to hide the receipt in the middle of the kitchen utensils. Generous, these lucky ones wish to share them with their families and carry out projects hitherto postponed, ”also specifies the French of the Games.
Obviously, the gain “made” speak “in the village of Castets. “We are happy, that makes advertising for the establishment. It is our biggest winner since we have installed there. So far, our biggest gain was scratching, it was a monopoly ticket with a gain of 50,000 euros, “added Ludovic Hoofd, originally from the North.
But, specifies the manager of the establishment, this is not the first big win in Castets. 3.3 million euros had been won in 2003.
History of gains
The biggest winnings of the French Games in the Department of Landes: 16 million euros in Villeneuve-de-Marsan on May 18, 2022, 5 million in Soorts-Hossegor on August 22, 2018, 3.4 million in Pissos on January 16, 1993, 3.3 million in Castets on October 3, 2003, 3 million in Sabers on July 21, 2014.
The gains of one million euros at My Million in the Landes: Castets on February 14, 2025, Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx on April 29, 2022, Bénesse-Maremne on September 3, 2021, Peyrehorade on August 23, 2019.
