Spain holds annual Christmas El Gordo lottery draw

Comment #8

jamella724 — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:16:25 GMT

What a great christmas gift, especially to the winners. And for a 20% tax rate this will be a huge help for the economy of Spain. Lottery continues to bring surprises to people even on christmas day.

Comment #7

maringoman — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 03:58:07 GMT

The English language clearly states that the opposite of spending is saving or holding and setting aside. Look it up

Comment #6

psykomo — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 03:08:26 GMT

TGG:

GOD BLE$$

EL Gordo on D boat 2 AMERICA soon!!!

bring on D BULL's 2

Comment #5

TheGameGrl — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 02:07:45 GMT

Congrats to the winners!!

I cringe at the American fallacy of saving ...its a marketing gimmick that the average person gets vacuumed into. I took accounting and you are either spending it, but rarely is their a column that says saved three dollars on groceries . It just means you didnt spend as much....

Comment #4

maringoman — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:26:41 GMT

This year I decided to not play but I did run an experiment. I went to the online vendor that was selling these tickets and selected 5 numbers. and wrote them down. It would have cost me $215.75 The numbers were 72572, 43385, 87195, 94496, 65668. Today when I checked the numbers against the drawn numbers I realized I would have won 20 or $27.39. I saved about $190 by not playing.

Comment #3

DDOH937 — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 03:35:05 GMT

hahaha, i was really just kidding and being silly. But since you asked, how many total people get prizes? It mentions the highest payout but no mention of the median, lowest payout or number of people receiving each? Seems like an awful lot of money ($3.4 BILLION) to be divided up when considering that the highest/top prize is only $500K and second prize is a mere $170K.

Comment #2

rcbbuckeye — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 02:48:44 GMT

What don't you understand

Comment #1

DDOH937 — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 02:16:34 GMT

I dont understand!!!! lol..

Spain holds annual Christmas El Gordo lottery draw

Lottery Post — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 02:01:59 GMT

The winners of Spain's cherished Christmas lottery the world's richest celebrated around the country Sunday, a moment of joy and relief after another year of a brutal financial crisis.

Millions had been glued to their televisions on Sunday as 2.5 billion euros (US$3.4 billion) in prize money was distributed. The drawing is so popular that most of Spain's 46 million people watched at least part of the live four-hour show, hoping they would hear their ticket as school children called out the lu... [ More ]