Loto losers as magic trick fails thousands

Predictions made by magician were not correct after all

Published Wednesday 24 January 2018 - 15:00 Modified Wednesday 24 January 2018 - 15:00

Thousands of lottery players lost out when they tried to back numbers predicted by a TF1 TV show magician... he had said they would win €2 million with his numbers.

So many viewers tried to pick the six numbers that Loto machines refused to take more bets as they are limited to just 45 bets on the same permutation – there are 14 million combinations. The numbers lost.

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