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French Loto draws crowd as state runs high stakes game
France’s Loto lottery operates with a 55 percent prize share and a 23.4 percent state take while 21.6 percent covers operating costs. The program uses a 168 person security team, photocopies every card, and faces occasional number misreads and cheating prosecutions. Maurice Caradet, Loterie Nationale secretary general, bets eight francs weekly and describes a personal method tied to his birthday and car details.
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