The incredibly popular lottery will dish out a total of 2.4 billion euros ($2.9 billion) in prizes, much of it in hundreds of smaller prizes.
Families, friends and co-workers traditionally buy the 20-euro tickets or “decimos (tenths)” together as part of a winter holiday tradition. They then wait in hope that fortune may come their way.
Normally, jubilant street and bar scenes follow of winners laughing, dancing and singing with uncorked bottles of sparkling wine. But this year, the celebrations seemed tamer with everyone wearing masks after authorities had urged much caution because of the virus.
Other lotteries have bigger individual top prizes but Spain’s Christmas lottery, held each year on Dec. 22, is ranked as the world’s richest for the total prize money involved.
First prize in Spain s Christmas lottery delivers more than one thousand 400,000 euro winners in Andalucía
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Spain s Christmas lottery delivers almost one million euros in prizes to Mijas
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The incredibly popular lottery will dish out a total of 2.4 billion euros ($2.9 billion) in prizes, much of it in hundreds of smaller prizes.
Families, friends and co-workers traditionally buy the 20-euro tickets or “decimos (tenths)” together as part of a winter holiday tradition. They then wait in hope that fortune may come their way.
Normally, jubilant street and bar scenes follow of winners laughing, dancing and singing with uncorked bottles of sparkling wine. But this year, the celebrations seemed tamer with everyone wearing masks after authorities had urged much caution because of the virus.
Other lotteries have bigger individual top prizes but Spain’s Christmas lottery, held each year on Dec. 22, is ranked as the world’s richest for the total prize money involved.
Spain Christmas lottery top prize goes to number 72897
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