People across Spain are tuning into radios and television to see if they are among the lucky ones to win a share of 2.2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in prize money in this year’s Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo (The Fat One).
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Second-prize winners included ticket-holders in Seville and Granada.
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Individuals chip in and purchase shares of many or several tickets in Spain in one among the most famous Christmas customs among families, friends or workmates.
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The total amount of cash up for grabs in the El Gordo lottery was 2.2 billion euros, which could give every single person in Spain 45 euros.
The winning number – 79140 – appeared on 1,600 tickets in the town, with each now worth €400,000.
The lottery has taken on special importance in recent years as Spain struggled through a real estate bubble and the European debt crisis.
People can’t pick their own numbers, so if they want a certain one they have to go online to find out if it exists and if so which agency or agencies are selling it. The odds of winning at least something are high.
Winners from across the country flocked to local lottery outlets to celebrate their good fortune in the traditional Christmas lottery draw, the world’s largest. “It’s very important for the town, especially in the hard times we’ve been facing”.
People are reflected in a shop window decorated for Christmas and New Year celebrations as they line up along a street waiting to buy lottery tickets in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015. It is estimated that three quarters of Spain’s 46 million population took part in the lottery, a tradition that dates back to 1812 and continued even throughout Spain’s civil war.
The prize ticket numbers are sung out by pupils of Madrid’s Saint Ildefonso School in a nationally televised event from the city’s Teatro Real opera house.
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Organizers said ticket sales totaled 2.5 billion euros this year, up 4.5 percent from last year.
