Spanish Christmas lottery pays out billions

Comment #19

psykomo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:05:16 GMT

work'ggggggggg on DDDDDDD RAILROAD^^^^^^^

hu^HU^^^^^^^^nuuoooooooRAILROAD!!

work is HARDDDDDDDDDDDDDDtaxxxxxxxxxesssssss on LOTTERY!!

go FIGURE

Comment #18

Iesha Kelly — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:53:21 GMT

I agree.

Comment #17

kapla — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:07:02 GMT

It could be called'El Fato

Comment #16

savagegoose — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:53:13 GMT

hehehe the text says the town has a population of 2000, yeat the winning tickets in the town are 1800!

does that mean there 200 very sad towns folk

Comment #15

GYM RICE — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:45:05 GMT

As long as the US lottery taxes your/our money as earned income, I like seeing one person win a large sum of money. Keeps the dream alive. But if they decided to change the system and make it like Canada's(tax free), then I could jump aboard the socialistic thinking of spreading the wealth when it comes to the lotto.

Comment #14

sully16 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:44:09 GMT

Congrats to all the winners.

Comment #13

Starr920 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:23:42 GMT

No winner on last night's Mega Millions but 31 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 prize: 5 from California, 1 from Connecticut, 1 from Georgia, 1 from Illinois, 1 from Indiana, 3 from Massachusetts, 3 from New Jersey, 5 from New York, 3 from Ohio, 2 from Tennessee, 3 from Texas, 1 from Virginia, 1 from Washington, and 1 from Wisconsin.

Now that's what I like to see - lots of second prize: winners will have an even happier holiday season

Comment #12

gogidolim — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:31:36 GMT

El Gordo-type lottery makes more sense. To most people out there, even $100,000 will make a huge difference in their lives. Even better, it will change many people's lives. I'd rather see 1000 $100,000 winners than 1 $100,000,000 winner.

Comment #11

myturn — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:16:24 GMT

Other state lotteries should start a 'Fat One', it would be fun and raise much-needed revenue.

Comment #10

TnTicketlosers — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:53:26 GMT

Thats what I have been preaching about for years.Let many people win,not just one.They would have more people playing.I could use 5 Thousand right about now couldnt you? So could alot more poor folks.i wish I run a State Lottery it would be the best in the country............Next to Georgia that is.

Comment #9

time*treat — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:29:05 GMT

Tax free

Comment #8

Starr920 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:48:37 GMT

IMO This is the way a huge $$$ lottery should be won - spread the $$$ around - DPoly, I know that's your dream but the whole one winner of a huge jackpot is just selfish and greedy - especially with so many people in need

Comment #7

Cletu$2 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:08:42 GMT

Maybe when our unemployment gets to 21.5% Mr Obama will let us have an El Gordo type of lottery so that we can afford to eat and buy essentials.

Comment #6

rad242 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:23:48 GMT

NO not strange if you understand how the game works. The ticket numbers are like SERIAL NUMBERS. Almost like buying scratch offs if you will. Think of it as a grand scale raffle concept

Comment #5

Guest — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:17:58 GMT

does no one else find it strange that all 1800 tickets won in one town only?

This is what lotteries should do here.

Comment #4

dpoly1 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:06:36 GMT

just imagine if we had very large jackpots that 1 person could potentialy win ........... oh wait, we do it works very well .........

Comment #3

gocart1 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:26:28 GMT

OK...So now i know what my spanish friends were saying to me when they would call me EL GORDO ....

Wait till i see them.....lol......HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL MY L/P FRIENDS

Comment #2

winwi5 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:19:18 GMT

Wow that's got to be and exciting feeling 1800 tickets so just imagine if someone purchased like 10 of those tickets and they are worth $400K. I feel like when the powerball and the mega millions jackpot hit $200- $300 million dollars it should be like this that way this would give others a chance to win maybe not 1800 but at least 100 people but us lotteries don't want to do that because they are greedy they are scared that if this happens the lottery sales will decrease because people will alr... [ More ]

Comment #1

LottoGuyBC — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:00:00 GMT

El Gordo

Spanish Christmas lottery pays out billions

Lottery Post — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:27:42 GMT

Days before Christmas, a tiny town of 2,000 in cash-strapped Spain found itself richer by 720 million (US$940 million) Thursday after scooping the top prize in the nation's famed Christmas lottery.

Billed as the world's richest, the lottery dishes out some 2.52 billion (US$3.29 billion) to winners across the nation.

The top prize dubbed El Gordo (The Fat One) was split among the holders of tickets bearing the number 58268. The number appeared on 1,800 tickets, giving winners 400,000 for th... [ More ]