$2.7 billion El Gordo Christmas 2018 lottery drawing held in Spain

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sweetie7398 — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 03:43:47 GMT

Still hoping for a win

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music* — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:14:44 GMT

right before the World Wide Great Recession struck us. The games gave us a bit of hope that we would strike it rich.

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Stack47 — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 04:32:31 GMT

People usually spend more money on raffles and lottery games when the economy is poor. The El Gordo prize was $2.76 billion in 2006.

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TheMeatman2005 — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 01:26:34 GMT

U.S. Lotteries should learn from El Gordo.

Check and double check to make sure it was correct....the first time.

Congrats to all participants! Ol

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music* — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 23:23:14 GMT

WOW! $2.7 Billion dollars. Spain's economy must be doing very well. Congratulations to all the winners

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Todd — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:56:08 GMT

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/242016

Comment #1

Bleudog101 — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:39:45 GMT

Too bad there wasn't an annual El Gordo here.

I remember one town with the exception of one individual they all won big in El Gordo.

$2.7 billion El Gordo Christmas 2018 lottery drawing held in Spain

Lottery Post — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 22:04:45 GMT

Includes video report

Those holding ticket number 03347 struck it rich Saturday when they won the top prize in Spain's famous Christmas lottery.

The lottery, known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, dished out 2.4 billion (US$2.7 billion) in prize money this year. The top prize for a winning ticket was 400,000 euros ($455,000), but there were many smaller prizes.

Here the people are celebrating a lot, it's the first time that the top prize for the Christmas lottery has fallen here, Luis Sori... [ More ]