Lucky Romanian from country's poorest region wins the lottery’s big prize

A lucky Romanian has won the EUR 3.7 million big prize of the 6/49 lottery game, with a ticket bought from a lottery office in Vaslui, Eastern Romania. Vaslui county is the poorest in Romania. The winning numbers for the Sunday draw were 24, 16, 38, 27, 11, and 3. The big lottery prize was previously won on July 28, 2016, and had a value of some EUR 3.9 million. In 2016, the Romanian Lottery awarded over 6.4 million prizes with a total value of over EUR 187.8 million. In December, Romanians won more than 601,000 prizes worth a total of EUR 17.7 million. Purchasing power in Romania, a third of European average despite 12% growth in 2016 Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com