Spaniards celebrate 'El Gordo' victories in world's biggest lottery

Comment #20

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 14:28:38 GMT

Congratulations to all the winners

Comment #19

jarasan — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 03:36:38 GMT

El Gordo works very differently than what most of us are familiar with. For illustration, there is a set of numbers from 00000 to 99999 this gives 100000 shares each number 100000 of them... 00000 00001 22345 23456... thru 99999 costs say $250 each so the entire series (pool) of numbers costs $250 X $100000 $25 million. They can also do say for eg. 10 sets of shares. There are vendors and those vendors sell the shares @ $250 each.............. a decimo a tenth is $25, so let's say the number pul... [ More ]

Comment #18

Stack47 — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 03:02:35 GMT

Speaking of too expensive for your taste, that's 1/10th of a ticket because each ticket costs 200 Euros or $244.

Comment #17

myturn — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 02:11:37 GMT

Yes, the States would make millions, which is the point of state lotteries. This is what I like about lotteries, they raise revenue for the common good.

Comment #16

myturn — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:35:03 GMT

The US lotteries could tailor it to suit US players. The point is a Christmas lottery would be very popular with players and generate additional revenue for the states, which is the point of the lotteries.

Comment #15

myturn — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 06:13:49 GMT

Such a Christmas lottery would be very popular in the US. States lotteries should organize a similar lottery in the US. It would appeal to all, regular lottery players and people who don't normally play but would enjoy the fun. It would also raise additional revenue for the states; which is the point of state lotteries.

Comment #14

Gleno — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:46:33 GMT

Did I hear correctly that these tickets cost equivalent to $25.00 each? Too expensive for my taste if we had something similar here in the USA.

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mypiemaster — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 23:50:21 GMT

This very popular lottery changes many lives for the better, every year, in Spain and elsewhere. If Spain can do $2B, the good ol' U.S. of A, can do $20B easily, if we can only put our differences aside just for a second.

Comment #12

JoeBigLotto — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:38:19 GMT

As have been saying monopoly millionaire club can learn from success and go big to monopoly Billionaire club or i be spending my next christmas in spain.

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music* — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:56:18 GMT

Feliz Navidad anubinareloaded ! and Happy New Year. Maybe some of you Spainards can teach us Yankees how to have a lottery game that endures for 200 years.

Comment #10

anubinareloaded — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:38:19 GMT

He ganado 60,000 por un d cimo del Gordo de Navidad... Yo vivo cerca de la calle Zurbano, que es la administraci n que vendi el Gordo, cachisss!!! por poco compro un d cimo del primer premio.

Y en enero hay un segundo sorteo llamado El Ni o , jejejejeje

Comment #9

RedStang — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:16:22 GMT

They would never allow this here unless they can make millions in profit.

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cbr$ — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:02:52 GMT

May the US could take a few pointers from this lottery. Since this lottery has lasted 200 years. They're doing something right.

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Crazy Wombat — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:01:57 GMT

Well they are doing something right in Spain ... they have a lottery that has lasted over 200 years and we have Monopoly Millionaire that lasted two months and a few days.

We can probably learn something from the beautiful people of Spain

Comment #6

maringoman — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:19:30 GMT

I'm curious about the payout ratio for every Dollar/Euro spent. Does anybody know? Otherwise I think the game is wonderful. Lots of winners just before Christmas (are we allowed to say Christmas anymore? Hahaha idgaf). It would be nice if MUSL Would offer such a raffle. No growing jackpot b.s. or weekly draws. Just one draw around Christmas and boom! Plenty of winners nationwide.

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hearsetrax — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:46:52 GMT

Comment #4

Crazy Wombat — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:21:42 GMT

This is my idea for a national lottery like El Gordo in Spain ... something similiar in this country ... maybe tickets costing $2 ... $2.50 or $5 ... however all prizes won would be tax free from federal tax.

Tickets would be on sale all year and could be bought at any Post Office ... 50% of every ticket sold would go to the federal government for taxes and expenses and 50% would be prize money in the pot for a whole year. Every December the US would have this one big tax free drawing ...

Comment #3

HaveABall — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:45:42 GMT

WOW! El Gordo, the world's biggest lottery raffle occurred , scooping up shares in over 2.2 billion euros (US$2.7 billion) in prizes doled out across Spain! And who knows, maybe some foreign visitors during raffle sales period won a couple million too!

A very merry Christmas and new year/life to you major El Gordo raffle winners! Wish I could have played and won.

Comment #2

music* — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:42:32 GMT

The FAT ONE has lasted for over 200 years. We need to start soon.

Comment #1

jarasan — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:34:44 GMT

The fat one. We could learn from this one as I have written before.

Spaniards celebrate 'El Gordo' victories in world's biggest lottery

Lottery Post — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:24:22 GMT

Thousands of Spaniards including humble restaurant workers and care home residents celebrated wins in the world's biggest lottery draw on Monday, scooping up shares in over 2.2 billion euros (US$2.7 billion) in prizes doled out across the country.

El Gordo, or the Fat One , is the top award millions vie for every year in the traditional Christmas lottery, which had Spaniards on tenterhooks for four hours as the ceremonial draw took longer than usual to throw up the big prizes.

The Gordo pa... [ More ]