A 1 in 19 million chance of winning the jackpot is better than EuroMillions (a 1 in 139 million chance) and the same as Loto. But the Eurodreams jackpot, the new player catcher from Française des jeux (FDJ), is enough to dream of: 20,000 euros per month for thirty years.

However, given the inflation that Europe has been experiencing for more than a year, the dilution of the total winnings of 7.2 million euros over thirty years clearly works to the detriment of the players. High inflation tends to lead to an increase in all prices: for 100 euros spent in 2023, you can buy fewer things than in 2022.

The logic is therefore the same for the monthly pension of 20,000 euros: except in the unlikely event of deflation, the purchasing power of this property can only decrease over time. To illustrate this, we recommend that you imagine how this purchasing power would develop over a period of thirty years. With an average inflation rate of 4% per year, the last pension of 20,000 euros in 2053 would correspond to the equivalent of 6,413 euros in 2023.

Another possible piece of bad news lies there Eurodreams ruleswhich indicates that the jackpot can only be won “in the border area” from three winning combinations among the many participating European countries. Sure, if four players had the six winning numbers and that “Dream number”There is no longer any talk of a monthly pension of 20,000 euros: the lucky winners would share 21.6 million euros equally.

However, the regulation stipulates that in this case the winnings are paid out all at once and not in the form of a monthly pension. Which would be a better operation for the winners in these inflationary times.