lotto ticket<\/a> in the pocket of the jacket when he put it away for the summer. He\u00a0didn’t discover the ticket\u00a0again until the weather turned chilly.\u00a0<\/p>\n“It wasn’t until the weekend that I found the ticket again, folded up in the inside pocket of my jacket,” the unidentified man was quoted as saying, adding, “When I checked the numbers on my phone and saw the winning amount, I was completely shocked \u2014 luckily I was sitting down, otherwise my knees would have given way.”<\/p>\n
The winning amount was\u00a0\u20ac15.3 million ($18 million).<\/p>\n
Lotto Frankfurt, which initiated a PR campaign searching for the lucky winner earlier this year, said the man had remained oblivious to his good fortune despite having seen and heard the campaign to identify the winner.<\/p>\n
“I heard about it on the radio at the time and thought to myself, ‘How stupid can you be to\u00a0not\u00a0collect it?’ It never occurred to me that I could be the person they were looking for,” the winner\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
When asked what he planned to do with his winnings, the man said he wanted to buy a new sofa for his living room.<\/p>\n
Beyond that, he and his wife \u2014\u00a0who wish to remain anonymous \u2014 said they plan\u00a0to use the bulk of the money to provide for their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"09\/29\/2025September 29, 2025Frankfurt man finds winning lottery ticket in jacket pocket as weather turns cold A German man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-461519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115289944485735379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}