Friday, May 9, 2025, 23:07
| Updated 23: 47h.
Lotteries and bets of the state offers raffles every day. One of the most popular among players is that of Euromillones. It is celebrated every Tuesday and every Friday and always leaves a new millionaire in Spain. Its major awards can play in several European countries, but in all draws there is a winner of El Millón. It is a prize of 1.000.000 euros. Each simple bet of each draw is assigned a code. The player never chooses it, it is always generated automatically. Hence it is pure chance.
There have been players who, thanks to Euromillones, have achieved much older amounts. For example, a man pocketed 77 million euros after losing the same award a few years ago. Of course, there is a limited time to collect it. In case of not doing so, the lucky one will lose it.
In the draw that took place this Friday, May 9, there has been a second -category winner (5+1) in Spain. The player has pocketed 153.430,49 euros. The winning ticket has been validated in Ceuta. On the other hand, in third category (5+0) another lucky one has won a prize of 35.859,23 euros. In this case the ticket has been sold in Madrid.
The million has left its millionaire prize this Friday in SAN SERVÁN ARROYO (Badajoz). This Extremadura municipality barely has 4,000 inhabitants. He is known for his historical heritage and rural beauty. It has a fourteenth century church and in the hill of San Serván cave paintings were found between 1500 and 500 a. C.
These are the award -winning numbers of this Friday:
15 18 25 29 47
Stars: 05 y 09
THE MILLION: NXC45888
(Remember that only official state lotteries channels are valid for prize verification)
How to play Euromillones
Euromillones mechanics is very simple. It consists of selecting 5 numbers from a 50 table (numbers from 1 to 50) and two stars in a table of 12 numbers (from 1 to 12). Depending on the successes you will be awarded in one category or another. On the other hand, with the Code of El Millón in each draw, 1,000,000 euros that have an insured winner are delivered. In Euromillones, 50% of the collection of prizes are allocated. The price of a bet is 2.50.
Winners stories
Millions of people play the lottery, the Euromillones and other draws in search of a blow of luck that changing their lives. Many get an award, but only a few manage to become millionaires. Of these, most prefer to stay anonymity and only some access to tell their history to the public. They are stories of good and bad luck. For some it is a dream fulfilled and for others, the beginning of a nightmare. These are some of them.
Win so many times that they put it under investigation
Amelia Barnham is 69 years old, is a financial worker, grandmother and mother of three children, and her story is the most rocambolesque. He has won the lottery so many times in the United Kingdom that they have put it under investigation. On February 3 he won 800 pounds and has not yet managed to charge them.
The new Hotipicks game operator sent a detective to his house and demanded that he demonstrate his identity. «This stressed me a lot and I am furious about the investigation. They made me feel like a criminal, ”says Amelia.
The reason for suspicions is his repeated good luck. Amelia spends 60 pounds a week on lottery tickets and has won small awards several times for a total of 23,600 pounds.
Win a million and keep working
There are whom a millionaire prize does not change your life. This is the case of Alex Best, a 23 -year -old who won in 2019 a million pounds (1.2 million euros) in the Euromillones and decided to continue working.
«I looked at the screen, reading every letter and number again and again to make sure it was true. I was shaking like a sheet, ”he recalls.
The lucky boy worked in the Flamingo Land de Leeds theme park for 10 pounds an hour. The young man demonstrated a solid work ethics and decided to stay in the same occupation despite receiving the millionaire prize.
35 million win and they run out of anything
Edwina and David Nylan won 35 million pounds but were left with nothing. This British couple regularly played the Lottomobile Draw of the United Kingdom validating their tickets through an application. In December 2015, they tried to make their bets, but after scoring their numbers they realized that they had no balance. The couple recharged their purse in the application to validate their bets.
After the draw, they could not give credit to verify that their combination had won a prize of 35 million pounds. When they were interested in the award they received the bad news that the recharge and the bets had not been registered in the system, so they did not appear as winners of the raffle.
“We had tried to recharge the account and we had not realized that it had not registered either,” they told the newspaper ‘The Sun’. “I am shattered, but what can we do?” Edwina lamented.
He wins more than five million and finds out at the bar
Rufino became the most famous neighbor in Valuengo, a small town in Jerez after winning the fat of the primitive. It was made with 5 million four hundred thousand euros. The most curious thing is how he learned that he was a millionaire: at the bar and by chance.
Rufino had coffee in the usual bar. Among the clients, the conversation arose that someone in the town had touched the prize of the Gordo de la Primitiva. The premises of the premises offered to check the Rufino ticket: “The Gordo is you.” And from there, general disbelief. No one in the bar believed it, not even the winner himself. Rufino had an accident in the company where he worked that it cost him three fingers of one hand and the work disability.
Killed after winning the lottery
Vicente Sánchez, a 79 -year -old neighbor of Hinojal (Cáceres), won a millionaire prize in the lottery eight years ago. On March 8, 2024, his body appeared with signs of violence in a rural area in the municipality. The man had disappeared since January 27.
The money was in this case a death sentence for Vicente. The town sheriff has confessed that he strangled him. The Civil Guard imputes the crimes of murder, robbery with violence and scam. The main mobile of the crime seems to be the economic one, since the detainee stole 2,000 euros that the victim had taken from the bank the day of his disappearance.
