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A French couple who used a quiz to spark interest in selling their country house in the Dordogne was forced to stop after the intervention of the French online gambling authorities.
The house in question belongs to Brigitte and Christophe Dembadougne. In Cenac-et-Saint-Julien, about 80 kilometers south-east of Périgueux, in Dordogne, it is an 18th century building called Chartreuse. The property also has stables, a tennis court, swimming pool and gardens.
The Dembadougnes initially put the property on the market with an estimated value of more than 1.5 million euros. To encourage buyers, on April 1, they launched an online quiz to sell the property to someone who answered all the questions correctly.
The quiz consisted of two questions and the participants also had to estimate the value of three objects.
According to the couple, nearly 20,000 people registered, paying 13 euros each, which raised 260,000 euros.
But the French authorities intervened. On Thursday, the couple received a letter from online gambling regulator Arjel citing a 2014 law banning gambling based on individual expertise.
The couple has eight days to prove the opposite. Brigitte Dembadougne told the AFP news agency that she was "pessimistic" about her chances of doing so, and promised that the players would get their money back.
In the meantime, the house is still on the market.
(Wwith Newswires)
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