El Gordo lottery drawing awards $2.42 billion in prizes

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GoArmy — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:39:45 GMT

I bought and lost. Really good payout prizes for it though.

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Maverick — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:28:48 GMT

I'm moving to Spain

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DoctorEw220 — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:30:23 GMT

do they draw this anually? how did everyone do

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Todd — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:39:16 GMT

Just go to the web site specified in the article (http://www.elgordoonline.com) and click About El Gordo for the entire prize matrix.Then click on the Dec 22 results for all the numbers drawn, including the bonus numbers.

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qutgnt — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:37:10 GMT

What does a book of these tickets cost? Where can you get a rundown of the exact payouts of this game? God forbid the US did this once a year. If they did though the payout would probably be 40% though. Unreal.

El Gordo lottery drawing awards $2.42 billion in prizes

Lottery Post — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:04:02 GMT

Winning El Gordo lottery ticket sold in a town called 'Luck'A town called Luck lived up to its name on Wednesday, turning up the winning ticket in Spain's Christmas lottery, featuring one of the world's biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).The ticket, which scooped a prize of 390 million (US$521.9 million), was sold at a lottery office called The Golden Witch (La Bruixa D'Or) in the town of Sort, which in the Catalan language means luck .Beas de Segura, a village of 8,000 inhabit... [ More ]