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Games of chance: the French more and more adept
La Française des Jeux recorded a sharp increase in turnover, while 27 million French people played a game of chance last year. – (France 2)
La Française des Jeux recorded a sharp increase in turnover, while 27 million French people played a game of chance last year.
Loto and Euromillions draws, scratch cards, sports betting… 27 million French people played a game of chance at least once last year. A regular guarantees “adrenaline rush”. She didn’t win today but isn’t discouraged: “It doesn’t matter, next week I’ll get one again.” The real winner of the jackpot is Française des Jeux (FDJ) and its shareholders.
Play to counter anxiety
Last year, the FDJ recorded a turnover of 2.62 billion euros, an increase of 6.5%. Games of chance are finding more and more fans as a way of reassuring oneself. This is what Dominique Desjeux, anthropologist and professor emeritus at Paris Sorbonne University, confides: “The covid-19 crisis has caused great anxiety among the French and one of the ways to manage this anxiety is to play and hope that fate will get us out of the bad situation we have gotten ourselves into.”
