In Barcelos, a seemingly ‘banal’ routine has become news. A client entered last Tuesday, September 30, in a Pastry of the Parish of Ucha to drink the usual coffee and decided to bet 10 euros in a scratch. The ticket turned out to be awarded 500,000 euros and the moment marked by surprise turned a small daily gesture into a local impact event.
According to Jornal de Notícias, the man described as a usual client did not immediately believe in what he saw and asked the employee to confirm the result.
Unexpected lucky morning
The owner of the establishment, Hélder Silva, said that the client reacted with amazement and hardly managed to believe in the amount. “At first, he was surprised and asked the employee to confirm that there were really 500 thousand euros. It was a coffee that came out quite cheap,” the owner described to the same source.
The pastry officer also mentioned that this space had already registered other gains, ranging from 10,000 to 60 thousand euros. However, the publication adds, a value had never been attributed as high as this half million euros.
Barcelos is the scene of high awards again
This case was not isolated in the county. The previous Friday, a kiosk of barqueiros had also awarded a client with 288,000 euros. It refers to the same source that was a scraping “Super Step”, whose payment will be made in monthly installments of 2,000 euros for 12 years.
Explains that the coincidence of two large awards, recorded in the same county within four days, caught the attention of the local community.
Scratching continues to lead bets
Barcelos’ cases fall into a wider trend: scratches remain as the Portuguese-lucky game preferred by the Portuguese. In 2023, the invested values grew significantly. It is known that the Portuguese spent an average of five million euros a day in this type of instant game.
According to the newspaper Público, gross scrap sales reached 1,836 million euros in 2023. This amount represented more than half of the total daily in bets on the remaining games of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa.
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