Ticket-holders in the Spanish coastal town of Roquetas de Mar are celebrating after they won first prize – and a share of 640 million euros – in Spain’s traditional Christmas lottery, known as “El Gordo” (The Fat One). There are also second prizes, third prizes, fourth prizes, and so on, worth anywhere from hundreds of thousands of Euros on down to €200 (the price of a single ticket). Instead, the lottery was created to give as many people as possible a Christmas bonus with family and friends often sharing tickets. Lottery officials say that can happen because bettors don’t pick their own numbers.
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The lottery has always been immensely popular but has taken on special importance in recent years as Spain struggled through a real estate bubble and the European debt crisis. The odds of winning at least something are high. The tickets are sold in many different lottery sites around the country but this year the winning tickets were sold entirely by one lottery agent in the city of 90,000.
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“I’m really happy and I congratulate all the winners”, Mayor Gabriel Amat told the Voz de Almeria newspaper.
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Spaniards are taking advantage of unseasonably warm weather and a “day of reflection” break in political campaigning ahead of a general election to buy tickets for the world’s richest lottery.
And that is not all, the website goes on to add that “The El Gordo lottery pays out more lottery prizes than any other lottery draw in the world, which is why the Spanish Christmas lottery is the biggest lottery payout in the world”.
The Spanish Christmas lottery is the largest lottery in the world.
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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This year, the Golden Witch office has sold about $54 million worth of tickets for two lottery draws – one on Tuesday and a smaller one on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany – which most Spaniards consider an integral part of their end-of-year festivities.
