FICARRA, Italy, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The town of Ficarra, Italy, is praying to hit it big with tickets for a SuperEnalotto jackpot worth at least $165 million, the town's mayor said Monday.
Town councilors took a total of $164 from their salaries to buy tickets for Tuesday's drawing, Mayor Basilio Ridolfo told the Italian news agency ANSA.
"Right now we think we have a better chance of winning SuperEnalotto than getting funds owed to us from the state," Ridolfo said.
The $165 million jackpot is the biggest ever for SuperEnalotto and for weeks has been the biggest of any lottery in the world.
''We chose numbers which were connected with the town's patron saint, the Virgin Mary of the Assumption," Ridolfo said. "It is our hope that, with her blessing, we will hit the jackpot."
If the town does win, half of the money will go into municipal projects and the other half will be divided evenly between Ficarra's 2,000 or so residents, Ridolfo said.
