Spain's Christmas lottery 'El Gordo' starts dishing out billions of dollars in prizes The immensely popular lottery will distribute a total of $2.8 billion in prizes this year, much of it in small ...

Lucky holders of 20-euro tickets with the number 88008 are celebrating. They have each won 400,000 euros ($440,000), in the top prize of Spain's huge Christmas lottery.

The Margin Spain’s centuries-old ‘El Gordo’ lottery is handing out nearly $2.9 billion in winnings this year Didn’t win Friday? There’s always El Niño on Jan. 6.

On Thursday, the winner of the world-famous El Gordo lottery will be announced. The lotto has been held in Spain for more than two centuries, having been founded in 1812, according to The U.S. Sun.

El Gordo is the first prize of Spain’s hugely popular national Christmas lottery, which is said to be the world’s largest based on the total prize money involved, even though other lotteries ...

Spain's popular lottery known as “EL Gordo" (the fat one) often prompts street and bar celebrations , with winners uncorking bottles of sparkling wine and singing and dancing.

MADRID — Spain kicked off the winter holidays with its huge Christmas lottery known as “El Gordo,” and an unemployed Peruvian woman was among the winners of The Fat One’s top 400,000-euro ...

Spain's immensely popular lottery El Gordo - 'the fat one' - distributed a total of 2.6 billion euro (£2.2 billion) in prizes this year, much of it in relatively small sums.

From the archives (December 2016): 'El Gordo' and its $2.4 billion jackpot draw crowds to Spain's luckiest lottery shop -Barbara Kollmeyer ...

Spain's bumper Christmas lottery "El Gordo" starts dishing out millions of euros in prizes People across Spain are tuning into the television, radio and internet as children from Madrid’s San ...

El Gordo is the first prize of Spain’s hugely popular national Christmas lottery, which is said to be the world’s largest based on the total prize money involved, even though other lotteries ...

Store employees celebrate after selling the winning Christmas lottery ticket known as El Gordo, or The Fat One, in Logrono, Spain, Dec. 22, 2024.