Bologna won the €5 million first prize in the New Year's Lottery. The blinded goddess stopped once again at Autogrill, when a fortunate Roman player won €2.5 million. The ticket was purchased at a highway service stop on Rome's A24 ring route. In a double dose of highway success, the 1,000,000-euro jackpot was sold at the Autogrill San Martino Grill in Parma, located on the A1 Milan-Naples at kilometer 114,100. The €1,500,000 prize was sold at Rome's Piazza Giovine Italia shop, while the €2 million prize was sold in Fonte Nuova's Via Palombarese 358. In addition to the first category awards, ten second category prizes of 50,000 euros each were won, as well as 180 third category prizes of 20,000 euros each. The war, the plague of high-priced bills, the lengthy wave of the pandemic problem, inflation. These are the four reasons behind the minor decrease in sales of the Italian Lottery, one of the most popular games among Italians. Which, however, stands up well against the Customs Agency's broad "Let's Draw Luck" campaign in favor of third-party organizations, as well as the power of tradition. The traditional Befana lottery sold around 6 million coupons, almost 400 thousand fewer than the 6.4 million tickets sold in 2021 (- 5% and a collection deficit of 2 million euros), the year in which the Italian Lottery rode the country's desire for post-pandemic recovery.