A scratch ticket brush. The motorists traveling through the A13, on Wednesday morning, near Saint-Oue-de-Thoubeville (Eure), attended an unusual scene. A truck that transported tickets to scratch the French games lost part of its load when reaching the battery of a bridge, Normandy reports here. The gendarmes were sent on the spot, after the accident, to recover the tickets that interrupted traffic on the road.
Scratch tickets, which had just printing for the Française des Jeux, had not yet registered in a tobacco office had no value. The truck driver was not injured in the accident, but was still taken to the hospital. The first analyzes reveal that it was not alcoholized or under the influence of drugs. The damaged truck was extracted from the road around 2 pm
Still precious scratch games
Last year, the Française des Jeux, who renamed FDJ United a few months ago, saw that its growth would be particularly dismissed by sports bets between euro football and the good performance of French clubs, while the lottery benefited from the attractive awards for Euromillion Players and the new Eurodream game according to the National Authority of the Games (Anj). For their part, the Scratch games took advantage of Gold and Maxi Black Jack’s releases.
At the beginning of March, FDJ United expressed its forecasts for the current year. The group anticipates, among other things, a “slight increase” in the billing of the lottery (including Scratch games and impressions) and network sports bets in France in 2025 compared to the 2.5 billion euros made in 2024. The activity “Paris and online games”, whose billing came out last year in 1.02 billion euros, is expected to wait performance”.
Source: BFM TV
