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Woman wins Nice casino jackpot with just €0,50 bet

A young woman who played just €0,50 in a Nice casino slot machine has won a jackpot of almost €35 000.

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Known only as Manon, the 18-year-old girl entered the Casino Ruhl in the city on Monday September 25, with just €10 in her pocket, intending to play that amount for fun, and spend nothing more.

Upon playing €0,50-worth of tokens in a “fruit machine”-style game named “Bonus Time”, she was astounded to see that the machine immediately returned thousands of coins to her, in a jackpot worth €34 991.

The casino confirmed the win to , saying that it “happens fairly regularly. This summer, we have had two or three people who have won this much”.

However, this kind of win is rare on a machine of this type.

The 18-year-old told the casino that she would use the money to buy her first car and fund her university studies.

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